GDP · 2025
1.76
trillion yuanQingdao Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Qingdao in figures
A northern coastal port city with strong manufacturing, marine-economy, trade and tourism functions.
Resident population · 2025
10.52
million peopleQingdao Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2025
11,293
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: Qingdao Statistics ↗ · Qingdao area source ↗ · Official Qingdao statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
79.79 percentQingdao Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
166,998 yuan per personQingdao GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Urban rail
360.9 kmQingdao Statistics ↗
Year-end operational route length.
Population
Which Qingdao?
Resident population covers all districts and county-level cities in the full Qingdao administrative territory.
Area
Administrative territory
Administrative area includes the urban coast, outer districts, county-level cities and rural land; it is not the built-up footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population, income and urban systems. Qingdao combines a major container port, international airport and expanding urban rail network.
International scale check
Compared with Austin
Selected for similar economic scale: Austin, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$252B, 2023) is close to Qingdao's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$252B).
Qingdao is a coastal prefecture-level municipality with county-level cities and rural land; Austin uses a five-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Qingdao
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Austin
Austin–Round Rock MSA
| Metric | Qingdao | Austin |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.76trillion yuan≈ US$252B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Qingdao Statistics ↗ | 252US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 10.52million peopleQingdao Statistics ↗ | 2.28million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 11,293sq kmQingdao area source ↗ | 10,929sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 931people / sq km | 209people / 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.