GDP · 2025
5.21
trillion yuanBeijing Statistics ↗
Whole-municipality GDP.
Provinces · China in Figures
Beijing municipality in figures
China’s capital shown as a province-level municipality, using the same whole-municipality boundary as the Beijing city profile.
Official standard map
Base map of Beijing's administrative boundaries (entire municipal area, color, 16-kai)
This is the complete 2025 edition (entire municipal area, color, 16-kai) provided through the official standard-map service of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources and Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. China in Figures has not cropped, redrawn, annotated or otherwise altered the map.
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Resident population · 2025
21.8
million peopleBeijing Statistics ↗
Whole-municipality year-end resident population.
Administrative area · 2025
16,410.5
sq kmBeijing Government ↗
Whole municipality, not built-up area.
Province profile
Economy, population and provincial structure
Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.
Source: Beijing Statistics ↗ · Beijing Government ↗ · Official municipal statistical release and official administrative geography; city and province-level routes share the same boundary where both exist.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
88.3 percentBeijing Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per person
238,869 yuan per personBeijing Statistics ↗
Official or derived from official GDP and population.
Services share
86 percentBeijing Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Administrative identity
One boundary, two navigation contexts
Beijing is both a city and a province-level municipality. This province-level profile uses the same whole-municipality official statistics as the city profile; the separate route exists for province-level navigation and comparison, not because it describes another territory.
Population and area
Whole-municipality scope
Population covers the whole Beijing Municipality administrative territory, not only the central built-up districts. Administrative land area (16,410.54 sq km) includes the whole municipality and is not a built-up-area measure.
How to use the pages
Province-level comparison versus city context
The latest formal municipality-wide GDP and population values on this page use reference year 2025. Use the province-level route for nationwide province-level comparison. Use the city route, where available, for city-system context; the two routes are not separate economies.
International scale check
Compared with Singapore
Selected for similar economic scale: Singapore.
Not a like-for-like rank
Singapore's nominal GDP (~US$0.55T, World Bank 2024) is close to Beijing's whole-municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.75T).
Beijing is China’s capital and a service-heavy province-level municipality; Singapore is a sovereign country. GDP proximity is a scale reference only. Population, area, administrative status and economic structure are not directly comparable.
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Beijing
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Singapore
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Beijing | Singapore |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.21trillion yuan≈ US$747B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Beijing Statistics ↗ | 547US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 21.8million peopleBeijing Statistics ↗ | 6.04million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 16,411sq kmBeijing Government ↗ | 734sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 1,328people / sq km | 8,221people / sq km |
Used only to place Chinese province GDP beside country GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.
Administrative identity & official data
Is Beijing a city or a province? Population and area, answered directly
These answers reorganize the existing formal Beijing province-level dataset; they do not maintain a second copy of population or area values. The city and province-level routes use the same whole-municipality boundary.
Is Beijing a city or a province?
Both: a city and a province-level municipality
Beijing is not inside another province. The province-level and city routes use the same administrative code 110000 and the same municipal territory; they are not two territories to add together.
What was Beijing's resident population in 2025?
21.8 million people
Year-end 2025 resident population for the whole municipality.
What is Beijing Municipality’s official administrative area?
16,410.54 sq km
Whole-municipality administrative area under the 2025 record; it is not the central built-up area or metropolitan-area footprint.
Industrial footprint
Industries that stand out
These facts highlight measurable national or global shares, rankings, and concentrated industry clusters. Sub-provincial facts are labelled with their exact local scope.
Beijing
Artificial intelligence
~50%
Share of China's core AI industry scale
- Beijing core AI industry scale
- ~CNY 350 billion
The national share is directly published as one half and preserved as an approximate 50%. It refers to the scale of the core artificial-intelligence industry, not enterprise count, filed models, financing, talent or computing power; the project does not infer a national denominator from the rounded Beijing scale.
Source · Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee ↗Beijing
Pharmaceutical and health industry
CNY 1.13 trillion
Total pharmaceutical-and-health industry scale
- Year-on-year industry-scale growth
- 6.5%
This is the municipality-wide broad pharmaceutical-and-health total industry scale for 2025. It remains the same broad series as the 2024 CNY 1.06 trillion point; the project does not substitute narrower pharmaceutical-manufacturing output, investment, approved-product counts or healthcare-service spending, and does not compute a national share.
Source · Beijing Municipal People's Government Portal ↗Beijing
Robotics
CNY 51.8 billion
Annual robot-industry operating revenue
- 2023 robot-industry operating revenue baseline
- CNY 15.0 billion
- 2023-2025 compound annual growth rate
- >85%
The source directly publishes municipality-wide robot-industry operating revenue for 2025. The project stores the exact CNY 51.8 billion value, does not reinterpret it as industrial output value, unit production or market sales, and does not substitute Beijing E-Town or Changping submunicipal cluster figures.
Source · Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Administrative Committee ↗