GDP · 2025
3.87
trillion yuanShenzhen Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP
Cities · China in Figures
Shenzhen in figures
A technology, manufacturing and trade centre adjoining Hong Kong, shown with visible administrative scope.
Resident population · 2025
18.25
million peopleShenzhen Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2025
1,997.5
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: Shenzhen Statistics ↗ · Shenzhen Civil Affairs ↗ · Shenzhen 2025 statistical bulletin and official administrative overview.chinainfigures.com
Urban rail
634.5 kmShenzhen Statistics ↗
Year-end operational route length.
Port throughput
35.41 million TEUShenzhen Statistics ↗
Port operational geography differs from the municipality.
Urbanisation
99.79 percentShenzhen Statistics ↗
Official resident-population classification.
Population
Which Shenzhen?
The 18.25 million figure is resident population across Shenzhen’s administrative territory. The city is almost fully urbanised by the official resident-population definition.
Area
Administrative territory
Shenzhen covers 1,997.47 square kilometres, far less administrative territory than Beijing, Guangzhou or Chongqing.
Economy and systems
A city in context
Shenzhen’s GDP reached 3.87 trillion yuan in 2025. Strategic emerging industries accounted for 43.0 percent of GDP. The city reported 634.5 km of urban rail and 35.41 million TEU of port container throughput in 2025; rail and port statistics use different operational geographies.
International scale check
Compared with Singapore
Selected for similar economic scale: Singapore, Singapore.
Not a like-for-like rank
National GDP (~US$547B, 2024) is very close to Shenzhen’s municipality GDP after USD conversion (~US$557B); both are dense, trade-oriented hubs.
Singapore is a sovereign city-state. Shenzhen is a prefecture-level municipality inside Guangdong. Legal and statistical scopes are not identical even when GDP totals look similar.
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Shenzhen
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Singapore
City-state (national territory)
| Metric | Shenzhen | Singapore |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 3.87trillion yuan≈ US$556B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Shenzhen Statistics ↗ | 547US$ billionSingapore national accounts (via Wikipedia metro GDP list) ↗ |
| Population | 18.25million peopleShenzhen Statistics ↗ | 6.04million peoplePopulation in Brief 2024 (Singapore) ↗ |
| Area | 1,997sq kmShenzhen Civil Affairs ↗ | 735sq kmSingapore Department of Statistics / land area releases ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 9,136people / sq km | 8,211people / 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.