GDP equivalent · 2024
0.35
trillion yuan equivalentMacao official GDP ↗
Indicative CNY equivalent; official value MOP403.314 billion.
Provinces · China in Figures
Macao in figures
A compact special administrative region with gaming, tourism and service exports at the centre of its economy.
Official standard map
Official map of the Macao Special Administrative Region
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Year-end population · 2024
0.69
million peopleMacao official population ↗
End-2024 total population, including non-resident workers and non-local students living in Macao.
Land area · 2024
33.3
sq kmMacao official land area ↗
Official 2024 land 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: Macao official GDP ↗ · Macao official population ↗ · Macao official land area ↗ · China in Figures indicative CNY conversion ↗ · Official 2024 GDP, population and land-area sources; CNY values are explicitly marked indicative conversions.chinainfigures.com
Population density
20,670 people per sq kmMacao official population ↗
Derived from year-end population divided by official land area.
GDP per person equivalent
509,883 yuan equivalent per personMacao official GDP ↗
Indicative CNY equivalent; official value MOP587,922 per person.
Real GDP growth
8.8 percentMacao official GDP ↗
Official real year-on-year growth for 2024.
Scope
What the official total covers
Macao is a special administrative region whose official GDP is published in patacas. The end-year total population includes local residents, non-resident workers and non-local students living in Macao.
Definitions
Population, land area and boundary
End-2024 total population, including non-resident workers and non-local students living in Macao. Administrative land area is 33.30 sq km. Official 2024 land area.
Currency
Official local currency and indicative CNY values
Official 2024 GDP: MOP403.314 billion. Indicative CNY equivalent: 0.350 trillion yuan. Real GDP growth: 8.80%. Official per-capita GDP: MOP587,922 per person. Official report ratio of US$73,154 to MOP587,922 per person, then × 6.97 CNY/US$. The conversion is for scale reading only.
International scale check
Compared with Bahrain
Selected for similar economic scale: Bahrain.
Not a like-for-like rank
Bahrain's nominal GDP (~US$0.04T, World Bank 2024) is close to Macao's official or officially derived US-dollar GDP (~US$0.05T).
Macao is a compact special administrative region centred on gaming, tourism and service exports; Bahrain is a sovereign country. GDP proximity is a scale reference only. Currency, population definition, area, administrative status and economic structure are not directly comparable.
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Macao
Macao Special Administrative Region region-wide official statistical scope
Peer country
Bahrain
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Macao | Bahrain |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.35trillion yuan equivalentOfficial local-currency value: MOP403.314 billion≈ US$50B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Macao official GDP ↗ | 41US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 0.69million peopleMacao official population ↗ | 1.59million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 33sq kmMacao official land area ↗ | 800sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 20,670people / sq km | 1,986people / sq km |
Official report ratio of US$73,154 to MOP587,922 per person, then × 6.97 CNY/US$.
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.
Macao
Tourism
50.9%
Tourism direct gross value added as a share of economy-wide GVA
- Tourism Direct Gross Value Added
- MOP195.69 billion
Use the directly published DSEC 50.9% tourism-direct-GVA share. Do not recompute the ratio from rounded amounts. This tourism-satellite-account measure includes gaming-related tourism activity and must not be added to gaming gross revenue.
Source · Statistics and Census Service, Macao SAR ↗Macao
Gaming
MOP247.404 billion
Annual gross revenue from games of fortune
- Year-on-year change
- +9.1%
Store the completed-calendar-year December accumulated figure. The source unit is MOP million; 247,404 million is converted exactly to MOP247.404 billion. This is gross gaming revenue, not gaming-sector value added or market share.
Source · Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Macao SAR ↗Macao
Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE)
~MOP6.28 billion
MICE-driven receipts of non-gaming industries
- MICE events
- 1,861 events
- Participants and attendees
- 1.473 million
Preserve the source estimated/approximately semantics. The receipt estimate refers to non-gaming industries driven by MICE activity; do not reinterpret it as total participant expenditure, gaming revenue or tourism direct value added.
Source · Statistics and Census Service, Macao SAR ↗