GDP · 2025
1.42
trillion yuanHefei Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Hefei in figures
Anhui’s capital and a fast-growing centre for research, electric vehicles, displays, semiconductors and advanced manufacturing.
Resident population · 2024
10
million peopleHefei population source ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2024
11,445
sq kmHefei 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: Hefei Statistics ↗ · Hefei area source ↗ · Hefei population source ↗ · Hefei GDP-per-resident inputs ↗ · Official Hefei statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
86.38 percentHefei population source ↗
Official 2024 resident urbanisation rate.
GDP per resident
135,050 yuan per personHefei GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
60.9 percentHefei Statistics ↗
Derived from official 2025 GDP components.
Population
Which Hefei?
The current GDP and income points use 2025, while resident population and urbanisation use the official 2024 population survey. The page keeps those years visible.
Area
Administrative territory
The citywide planning scope covers 11,445 sq km and is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current formal GDP and income values use the official 2025 economic release. Hefei is a major central-eastern rail, aviation and logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Sacramento
Selected for similar economic scale: Sacramento, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$190B, 2023) is close to Hefei's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$204B).
Hefei is a large provincial-capital municipality; Sacramento uses a multi-county MSA. Hefei GDP and population currently use different reference years. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Hefei
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Sacramento
Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom MSA
| Metric | Hefei | Sacramento |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.42trillion yuan≈ US$204B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Hefei Statistics ↗ | 190US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 10million peopleHefei population source ↗ | 2.4million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 11,445sq kmHefei area source ↗ | 13,512sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 874people / sq km | 177people / 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.