GDP · 2025
0.54
trillion yuanTaiyuan Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Taiyuan in figures
Shanxi’s capital and a centre for energy-industry transition, heavy manufacturing, materials, services and regional administration.
Resident population · 2025
5.53
million peopleTaiyuan population source ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2024
6,909
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: Taiyuan Statistics ↗ · Taiyuan area source ↗ · Taiyuan population source ↗ · Official Taiyuan statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
90.4 percentTaiyuan population source ↗
Official 2025 resident urbanisation rate.
GDP per resident
97,401 yuan per personTaiyuan GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
71.1 percentTaiyuan Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Taiyuan?
Resident population and urbanisation use the dedicated official 2025 population communique.
Area
Administrative territory
The official municipal overview gives an administrative area of 6,909 sq km; it is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 economic communique for GDP and industry structure. Taiyuan is Shanxi’s main rail, aviation and logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Albany
Selected for similar economic scale: Albany, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$85B, 2023) is close to Taiyuan's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$77B).
Taiyuan is a provincial-capital municipality with a separate citywide population release; Albany uses a multi-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Taiyuan
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Albany
Albany–Schenectady–Troy MSA
| Metric | Taiyuan | Albany |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.54trillion yuan≈ US$77B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Taiyuan Statistics ↗ | 85US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 5.53million peopleTaiyuan population source ↗ | 0.9million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 6,909sq kmTaiyuan area source ↗ | 7,282sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 800people / sq km | 123people / 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.