GDP · 2024
0.4
trillion yuanQinghai Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Qinghai in figures
A vast high-altitude province at the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, with clean energy, minerals and pastoral systems.
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Official administrative map of Qinghai Province (32-kai)
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Resident population · 2024
5.93
million peopleQinghai Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
722,300
sq kmQinghai 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: Qinghai Statistics ↗ · Qinghai Government ↗ · Qinghai 2024 official economic and population releases plus an official geography reference.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
63.9 percentQinghai Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
66,624 yuan per personQinghai Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
48.8 percentQinghai Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Qinghai occupies the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and contains the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. Province-wide totals combine Xining with vast pastoral, mountain and basin territories.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is the year-end region-wide total: 5.93 million in 2024. Administrative land area (722,300 sq km) is the provincial-level territory, not built-up area.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Qinghai's GDP reached 0.40 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 2.7 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 9.1%, secondary 42.1%, tertiary 48.8%.
International scale check
Compared with Tunisia
Selected for similar economic scale: Tunisia.
Not a like-for-like rank
Tunisia's nominal GDP (~US$0.05T, World Bank 2024) is close to Qinghai's provincial-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.06T).
Qinghai is a vast high-altitude province with clean energy, minerals and pastoral systems; Tunisia 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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Qinghai
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Tunisia
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Qinghai | Tunisia |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.4trillion yuan≈ US$57B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Qinghai Statistics ↗ | 51US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 5.93million peopleQinghai Statistics ↗ | 12.28million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 722,300sq kmQinghai Government ↗ | 163,610sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 8people / sq km | 75people / 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.
Qinghai
Potash fertilizer
>77%
Share of China's total potash output
- Potash output
- 7.06 million tonnes
Province-wide potash physical-output share. Preserve the published lower bound of more than 77%; do not substitute production capacity, resource reserves, or one company's output.
Source · Qinghai Provincial People's Government ↗Qinghai
Lithium carbonate
19%
Share of China's total lithium-carbonate output
- Lithium-carbonate output
- 134,000 tonnes
Province-wide lithium-carbonate production share for 2024. The denominator is China's total lithium-carbonate output, not lithium reserves, extraction capacity, cathode materials, or battery output.
Source · Qinghai Provincial People's Government ↗