GDP · 2024
5.78
trillion yuanFujian Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Fujian in figures
A private-sector and export-oriented coastal province on the Taiwan Strait.
Official standard map
Official administrative map of Fujian Province (boundary style 1, 8-kai)
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Resident population · 2024
41.93
million peopleFujian Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
124,000
sq kmFujian Government ↗
Provincial territory, 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: Fujian Statistics ↗ · Fujian Government ↗ · Fujian 2024 statistical communique and official geography references.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
71.8 percentFujian Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
137,920 yuan per personFujian Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
51.5 percentFujian Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Fujian is a private-sector and export-oriented coastal province on the Taiwan Strait, centred on Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Xiamen. Province-wide figures cover the whole territory—do not treat the total as a single coastal city cluster.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is year-end province-wide. At about 41.93 million it concentrates along the coastal belt, while the mountainous interior is more sparsely settled. Administrative area (124,000 sq km) is land area inside the provincial boundary, not built-up area; it excludes the large sea area under Fujian's jurisdiction.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Fujian's GDP reached 5.78 trillion yuan. Services accounted for 51.5 percent, and per-resident GDP is among the highest of any Chinese province. 2024 industry structure: primary 5.7%, secondary 42.8%, tertiary 51.5%. Real GDP growth was 5.5%.
International scale check
Compared with Belgium
Selected for similar economic scale: Belgium.
Not a like-for-like rank
Belgium's nominal GDP (~US$0.66T, IMF 2024) places it in a similar mid-size-economy band to Fujian's province GDP after USD conversion (~US$0.83T); the gap is larger than for other provinces, so treat as an order-of-magnitude check only.
Fujian is a coastal Chinese province; Belgium is a compact high-income sovereign state. GDP proximity is loose and structural comparisons are not valid.
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Fujian
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Belgium
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Fujian | Belgium |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.78trillion yuan≈ US$829B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Fujian Statistics ↗ | 663US$ billionUN / Wikipedia countries by nominal GDP ↗ |
| Population | 41.93million peopleFujian Statistics ↗ | 11.7million peopleStatbel / UN population estimates ↗ |
| Area | 124,000sq kmFujian Government ↗ | 30,528sq kmNational Geographic Institute / national area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 338people / sq km | 383people / 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.
Official data quick answers
Fujian population, GDP and area — official 2024 figures
These answers read the existing formal Fujian province dataset directly rather than maintaining a second copy of the numbers. All three use province-wide administrative scope.
What is Fujian's population?
41.93 million people
Province-wide resident population at year-end 2024.
What was Fujian's GDP in 2024?
5.78 trillion yuan
2024 province-wide GDP at current prices.
How large is Fujian Province?
124,000 sq km
Provincial land administrative area, not built-up urban area and not the sea area under Fujian jurisdiction.
Year boundary: the province-wide macro snapshot above uses the formal 2024 dataset. Signature-industry cards below use their own 2024/2025 official sources; a newer industry reference year does not update the province-wide GDP or population year.
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.
Quanzhou, Fujian
Quanzhou sports-shoe cluster
40%
Share of China's sports-shoe output
- Global output share
- 20%
This is a Quanzhou city-cluster production-share fact, not a province-wide Fujian share. The national and global shares are directly published and are not recomputed.
Source · Quanzhou Municipal People's Government ↗Fujian
Marine aquaculture
~1/4
Share of China's marine-aquaculture output
- 2025 marine-aquaculture output
- 6.4434 million tonnes
The source publishes the share as 'about one quarter'; retain that approximate fraction rather than converting it into false precision.
Source · Fujian Provincial Department of Ocean and Fisheries ↗Fujian
Tea industry
>CNY 180 billion
Tea full-industry-chain output value
- National rank
- No. 1 in China
This is full-industry-chain output value, not primary tea output or revenue of above-scale enterprises. The source publishes an above-threshold value and national rank, not a national percentage share.
Source · Fujian Provincial People's Government ↗