GDP · 2025
1.51
trillion yuanFuzhou statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Fuzhou in figures
Fujian’s capital and a Taiwan Strait gateway for digital industries, advanced manufacturing, trade, services and maritime transport.
Resident population · 2025
8.52
million peopleFuzhou statistics source ↗
Year-end resident population across the stated municipal scope.
Administrative area · 2024
11,968.5
sq kmFuzhou administrative area source ↗
Administrative territory, not built-up area.
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.
Source: Fuzhou statistics source ↗ · Fuzhou administrative area source ↗ · Official Fuzhou statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
74.63 percentFuzhou statistics source ↗
Official resident-population classification; the communique scope excludes the Matsu-administered islands.
Disposable income
54,007 yuan per personFuzhou statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income.
Services share
59 percentFuzhou statistics source ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Fuzhou?
The 2025 statistical communique reports the resident population for the municipal statistical scope and explicitly excludes the Matsu-administered islands associated with Lianjiang County.
Area
Administrative territory
The official administrative-division overview gives 11,968.53 sq km for the citywide administrative territory; this is not the continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, population, urbanisation, resident income and the three-industry structure use the official 2025 statistical communique. Fuzhou is a major southeast-coast rail, airport, port and cross-strait logistics gateway.
International scale check
Compared with Columbus
Selected for similar economic scale: Columbus, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
Columbus MSA GDP (US$182.1B, 2023) is within the same scale as Fuzhou municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (about US$216.8B).
Fuzhou is a Chinese prefecture-level municipality with counties and county-level cities; Columbus uses a multi-county U.S. MSA boundary.
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Fuzhou
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Columbus
Columbus, Ohio MSA
| Metric | Fuzhou | Columbus |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.51trillion yuan≈ US$217B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Fuzhou statistics source ↗ | 182US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED ↗ |
| Population | 8.52million peopleFuzhou statistics source ↗ | 2.19million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metro population estimate ↗ |
| Area | 11,969sq kmFuzhou administrative area source ↗ | 27,730sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan gazetteer ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 712people / sq km | 79people / 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.