GDP · 2025
1.68
trillion yuanWuxi statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP at current prices.
Cities · China in Figures
Wuxi in figures
A high-output Jiangsu manufacturing and innovation centre on Lake Tai, with strengths in electronics, machinery, biomedicine and the Internet of Things.
Resident population · 2025
7.54
million peopleWuxi statistics source ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipal statistical scope.
Administrative area · 2023
4,627.5
sq kmWuxi administrative area source ↗
Official total municipal area including land and water, 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: Wuxi statistics source ↗ · Wuxi administrative area source ↗ · Official Wuxi statistical and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
83.8 percentWuxi statistics source ↗
Official resident-population urbanisation rate.
Disposable income
75,200 yuan per personWuxi statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income per person.
Services share
52.2 percentWuxi statistics source ↗
Official tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Wuxi?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including Wuxi's urban districts and the county-level cities of Jiangyin and Yixing.
Area
Administrative territory
The official city overview reports 4,627.47 sq km of total municipal area, including land and water. It is not the 356 sq km built-up area cited separately.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, resident population, urbanisation, resident income and industry structure use the official 2025 statistical communique. Wuxi is connected by high-speed rail, expressways, inland waterways and regional aviation to Shanghai, Nanjing and the broader Yangtze River Delta.
International scale check
Compared with Baltimore
Selected for similar economic scale: Baltimore, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$259.7B, 2023) is close to Wuxi's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$240.7B).
Wuxi uses the source-defined full municipal administrative/statistical territory; Baltimore uses a multi-county U.S. MSA. Years and boundary types differ, so GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Wuxi
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Baltimore
Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, MD MSA
| Metric | Wuxi | Baltimore |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.68trillion yuan≈ US$241B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Wuxi statistics source ↗ | 260US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 7.54million peopleWuxi statistics source ↗ | 2.84million peopleU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metro geography ↗ |
| Area | 4,627sq kmWuxi administrative area source ↗ | 6,738sq kmU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metro geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 1,629people / sq km | 422people / 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.