GDP · 2025
0.26
trillion yuanHaikou statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Haikou in figures
Hainan’s capital and the province’s administrative, commercial, aviation, port and free-trade gateway.
Resident population · 2025
3.06
million peopleHaikou population source ↗
Year-end resident population across the stated municipal scope.
Administrative area · 2020
2,313
sq kmHaikou 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: Haikou statistics source ↗ · Haikou population source ↗ · Haikou administrative area source ↗ · Official Haikou statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
83.55 percentHaikou population source ↗
Official 2025 resident-population classification.
Disposable income
44,427 yuan per personHaikou statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income.
Services share
79.1 percentHaikou statistics source ↗
Derived from the same-release tertiary value added and GDP.
Population
Which Haikou?
Resident population and urbanisation use the official 2025 population release for the full municipality.
Area
Administrative territory
The official water-resources report gives 2,313 sq km of municipal land area; the reference year is 2020 and it is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, industry components and all-resident disposable income use the official 2025 economic operation release; the services share is transparently derived from the same release. Haikou is Hainan’s primary aviation, ferry, port and island-wide road gateway and a key node of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
International scale check
Compared with Anchorage
Selected for similar economic scale: Anchorage, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
Anchorage MSA GDP (about US$31.2B, 2023) is close in scale to Haikou municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (about US$36.8B).
Haikou is an island provincial capital with a compact municipal boundary; Anchorage MSA covers an exceptionally large Alaskan territory.
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Haikou
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Anchorage
Anchorage MSA
| Metric | Haikou | Anchorage |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.26trillion yuan≈ US$37B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Haikou statistics source ↗ | 31US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED ↗ |
| Population | 3.06million peopleHaikou population source ↗ | 0.4million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metro population estimate ↗ |
| Area | 2,313sq kmHaikou administrative area source ↗ | 68,043sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan gazetteer ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 1,321people / sq km | 6people / 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.