GDP · 2024
5.32
trillion yuanHunan Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Hunan in figures
A Central China economy known for engineering machinery, agriculture and consumer industries.
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Official administrative map of Hunan Province (32-kai)
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Resident population · 2024
65.39
million peopleHunan Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
211,800
sq kmHunan 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: Hunan Statistics ↗ · Hunan Government ↗ · Hunan 2024 statistical communique and official geography references.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
62.1 percentHunan Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
81,225 yuan per personHunan Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
54.1 percentHunan Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Hunan is a major Central China province with Changsha as its principal urban and industrial hub. Province-wide totals include extensive prefectural and rural territory.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is the year-end province-wide total: 65.39 million in 2024. Administrative area (211,800 sq km) is territory inside the provincial boundary, not built-up area.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Hunan's GDP reached 5.32 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 4.8 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 9.2%, secondary 36.7%, tertiary 54.1%.
International scale check
Compared with Sweden
Selected for similar economic scale: Sweden.
Not a like-for-like rank
Sweden's nominal GDP (~US$0.60T, World Bank 2024) is close to Hunan's province-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.76T).
Hunan is a populous Central China province with large manufacturing and agricultural systems; Sweden 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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Hunan
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Sweden
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Hunan | Sweden |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.32trillion yuan≈ US$764B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Hunan Statistics ↗ | 604US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 65.39million peopleHunan Statistics ↗ | 10.57million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 211,800sq kmHunan Government ↗ | 528,660sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 309people / sq km | 20people / 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.
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.
Changsha, Hunan
Construction machinery
28%
Share of national construction-machinery industry total
- 2024 industry scale (published threshold)
- > RMB 250 billion
- National rank duration
- No. 1 for 15 consecutive years
Use the directly published 28% national-total share. Scope is the Changsha construction-machinery cluster, not all industries in Hunan.
Source · Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology ↗Changsha, Hunan
Construction machinery
~1/3
Share of national construction-machinery industry total
- 2021 cluster output threshold
- > RMB 280 billion
Preserve the published approximate one-third fraction; 33.333 is machine-readable only and does not imply exact precision.
Source · Hunan Provincial People's Government ↗