GDP · 2025
0.86
trillion yuanKunming Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Kunming in figures
Yunnan’s capital and a highland gateway for tourism, logistics, aviation and trade with South and Southeast Asia.
Resident population · 2025
8.74
million peopleKunming Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2021
21,012.5
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: Kunming Statistics ↗ · Kunming area source ↗ · Official Kunming statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
84.02 percentKunming Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
98,855 yuan per personKunming Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
67.2 percentKunming Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Kunming?
Resident population covers the full municipal administrative territory, including outer counties and county-level areas.
Area
Administrative territory
The official municipal area is 21,012.54 sq km and is not the continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population and industry structure. Kunming is a major southwest aviation, rail and cross-border logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Richmond
Selected for similar economic scale: Richmond, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$117B, 2023) is close to Kunming's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$124B).
Kunming is a highland provincial-capital municipality with extensive outer counties; Richmond uses a multi-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Kunming
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Richmond
Richmond MSA
| Metric | Kunming | Richmond |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.86trillion yuan≈ US$124B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Kunming Statistics ↗ | 117US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 8.74million peopleKunming Statistics ↗ | 1.31million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 21,013sq kmKunming area source ↗ | 11,333sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 416people / sq km | 116people / 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.