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Chengdu in figures

A western Chinese megacity explained through municipality-wide official statistics—and the boundaries behind them.

GDP · 2025

2.48

trillion yuanChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

Municipality-wide GDP

Resident population · 2025

21.54

million peopleChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

Year-end resident population

GDP per resident · 2025

115,155

yuan per personChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

Resident-population basis

City profile

Economy, population and urban systems

Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.

Latest official values

Source: Chengdu Statistics Bureau ↗ · Chengdu territorial planning ↗ · Chengdu 2025 statistical bulletin.chinainfigures.com

Disposable income

54,363 yuan per personChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

All residents, not urban residents only.

Urbanisation

81.5 percentChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

Share of resident population living in urban areas.

Services share

69.9 percentChengdu Statistics Bureau ↗

Tertiary-industry share of GDP.

Population

Which Chengdu?

The 21.54 million figure covers the entire Chengdu municipality, including central districts, suburban districts, county-level cities and rural territory.

Area

A large municipality

Chengdu municipality covers a very large administrative territory. It should not be read as one continuously built-up urban area.

Economy and transport

Western regional centre

Chengdu produced 2.48 trillion yuan of GDP in 2025. Services accounted for 69.9 percent, while advanced manufacturing and electronics remain important parts of the economy. Chengdu functions as an inland aviation and rail hub. Transport indicators must specify whether they cover one airport, both airports, the metro network or the wider municipality.

International scale check

Compared with Sydney

Selected for similar economic scale: Sydney, Australia.

Not a like-for-like rank

Greater Sydney GDP (~US$368B, 2021) is close to Chengdu’s municipality GDP after USD conversion.

Chengdu is a prefecture-level municipality; Sydney uses the ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Area. Years also differ.

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Chengdu

Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope

Overseas peer

Sydney

Greater Sydney (GCCSA)

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
Metric	Chengdu	Sydney
Gross product	2.48trillion yuan· 2025≈ US$355B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Chengdu Statistics Bureau ↗	368US$ billion· 2021Wikipedia list of metropolitan areas by GDP ↗
Population	21.54million people· 2025Chengdu Statistics Bureau ↗	5.45million people· 2023Australian Bureau of Statistics (Greater Sydney) ↗
Area	14,335sq km· 2024Chengdu Statistics Bureau ↗	12,368sq km· 2021ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Area geography ↗
Density (derived)	1,502people / sq km	441people / sq km

Used only to place Chinese municipality GDP beside peer metro GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.