GDP · 2025
5.67
trillion yuanShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗
Municipality-wide GDP
Cities · China in Figures
Shanghai in figures
A global financial, trade and transport centre explained through municipality-wide official statistics and visible geographic scope.
Resident population · 2025
24.85
million peopleShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
6,340.5
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: Shanghai Statistics Bureau ↗ · Shanghai Government ↗ · Shanghai 2025 statistical bulletin and official municipal overview.chinainfigures.com
Disposable income
91,987 yuan per personShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗
All residents, not urban residents only.
Urban rail
962 kmShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗
Includes Jinshan Railway and the Airport Link Line.
Port throughput
55.06 million TEUShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗
Port geography differs from municipality geography.
Population
Which Shanghai?
The 24.85 million figure is the year-end resident population across the entire municipality. The 89.94 percent urbanisation rate comes from the separate 2025 one-percent population survey with a 1 November reference time.
Area
Administrative territory
Shanghai's 6,340.5 square kilometres refer to the municipality's administrative territory, not its continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and transport
A global gateway
Shanghai's GDP reached 5.67 trillion yuan in 2025. Services accounted for 79.3 percent of GDP, reflecting the city's role in finance, trade, logistics and professional services. Shanghai combines a 962 km urban rail network with a port handling 55.06 million TEU in 2025. The rail network and port statistics use different geographic scopes.
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Compared with Chicago
Selected for similar economic scale: Chicago, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
MSA GDP (~US$895B, 2023) is close to Shanghai’s municipality GDP after USD conversion (~US$814B).
Shanghai is a province-level municipality; Chicago figures use the U.S. MSA boundary. Population and area therefore cover different kinds of territory.
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Shanghai
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Chicago
Chicago–Naperville–Elgin MSA
| Metric | Shanghai | Chicago |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.67trillion yuan≈ US$814B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Shanghai Statistics Bureau ↗ | 895US$ billionBEA metro GDP (via Wikipedia list) ↗ |
| Population | 24.85million peopleShanghai Statistics Bureau ↗ | 9.41million peopleU.S. Census Bureau MSA estimate ↗ |
| Area | 6,341sq kmShanghai Government ↗ | 18,641sq kmU.S. Census Bureau gazetteer (MSA land area) ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 3,920people / sq km | 505people / 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.
Same administrative boundary
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