GDP · 2025
0.9
trillion yuanXiamen Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Xiamen in figures
A compact southeast coastal port city with strong trade, electronics, services and tourism functions.
Resident population · 2025
5.37
million peopleXiamen Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2023
1,699
sq kmXiamen area source ↗
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: Xiamen Statistics ↗ · Xiamen area source ↗ · Official Xiamen statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
91.31 percentXiamen Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
167,388 yuan per personXiamen GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
61.9 percentXiamen Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Xiamen?
Resident population covers the full municipal land territory and all six districts.
Area
Administrative territory
The stored area is official land area only; the separately administered sea area is excluded.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population, income and industry structure. Xiamen combines a major port, international airport and cross-strait trade functions.
International scale check
Compared with Salt Lake City
Selected for similar economic scale: Salt Lake City, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$148B, 2023) is close to Xiamen's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$129B).
Xiamen is a compact coastal municipality using land area only; Salt Lake City uses a multi-county MSA. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Xiamen
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City MSA
| Metric | Xiamen | Salt Lake City |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.9trillion yuan≈ US$129B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Xiamen Statistics ↗ | 148US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 5.37million peopleXiamen Statistics ↗ | 1.26million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 1,699sq kmXiamen area source ↗ | 14,215sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 3,158people / sq km | 88people / 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.