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Suzhou in figures

A manufacturing, export and innovation centre in the Yangtze River Delta, shown with municipality-wide scope.

GDP · 2025

2.77

trillion yuanSuzhou Statistics ↗

Municipality-wide GDP

Resident population · 2025

13.05

million peopleSuzhou Statistics ↗

Latest formal resident population

Administrative area · 2025

8,657.3

sq kmSuzhou Government ↗

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.

Latest official values

Source: Suzhou Statistics ↗ · Suzhou Government ↗ · Official city releases and administrative overview.chinainfigures.com

Disposable income

80,796 yuan per personSuzhou Statistics ↗

All residents.

GDP per resident

212,260 yuan per personSuzhou GDP-per-resident inputs ↗

Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.

Urbanisation

82.9 percentSuzhou Statistics ↗

Resident-population classification.

Population

Which Suzhou?

The resident-population figure covers the full administrative city.

Area

Administrative territory

Administrative area includes urban, suburban and rural territory.

Economy and systems

A city in context

Suzhou 2025 GDP and industry structure come from the official statistical communique. Urban rail including tram lines reached 392.45 km in 2025.

International scale check

Compared with Toronto

Selected for similar economic scale: Toronto, Canada.

Not a like-for-like rank

Toronto CMA GDP (~US$402B, 2022) is close to Suzhou’s municipality GDP after USD conversion (~US$398B).

Suzhou is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu; Toronto figures use Statistics Canada’s CMA boundary.

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Suzhou

Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope

Overseas peer

Toronto

Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
Metric	Suzhou	Toronto
Gross product	2.77trillion yuan· 2025≈ US$397B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Suzhou Statistics ↗	402US$ billion· 2022Statistics Canada / Wikipedia metro GDP list ↗
Population	13.05million people· 2025Suzhou Statistics ↗	6.2million people· 2021Statistics Canada Census (Toronto CMA) ↗
Area	8,657sq km· 2025Suzhou Government ↗	5,903sq km· 2021Statistics Canada Census geography ↗
Density (derived)	1,507people / sq km	1,051people / 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.