GDP · 2025
5.67
trillion yuanShanghai Statistics ↗
Whole-municipality GDP.
Provinces · China in Figures
Shanghai municipality in figures
A global financial, trade and transport centre shown as a province-level municipality using the same boundary as the Shanghai city profile.
Official standard map
Official administrative map of Shanghai Municipality (32-kai)
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Resident population · 2025
24.85
million peopleShanghai Statistics ↗
Whole-municipality year-end resident population.
Administrative area · 2024
6,340.5
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: Shanghai Statistics ↗ · Shanghai Government ↗ · Official municipal statistical release and official administrative geography; city and province-level routes share the same boundary where both exist.chinainfigures.com
Population density
3,920 people per sq kmShanghai Statistics ↗
Derived from municipality-wide population and administrative area.
GDP per person
228,166 yuan per personShanghai Statistics ↗
Derived from official GDP and resident population.
Real GDP growth
5.4 percentShanghai Statistics ↗
Official real annual growth.
Administrative identity
One boundary, two navigation contexts
Shanghai is both a city and a province-level municipality. The province-level and city profiles use the same municipal boundary and core official values; this route places Shanghai in the nationwide province-level catalogue and comparison tool.
Population and area
Whole-municipality scope
Population covers the whole Shanghai Municipality administrative territory, not only the central built-up districts. Administrative land area (6,340.50 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 Netherlands
Selected for similar economic scale: Netherlands.
Not a like-for-like rank
Netherlands's nominal GDP (~US$1.21T, World Bank 2024) is close to Shanghai's whole-municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.81T).
Shanghai is a global finance, trade, transport and services centre organised as a province-level municipality; Netherlands 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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Shanghai
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Netherlands
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Shanghai | Netherlands |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.67trillion yuan≈ US$814B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Shanghai Statistics ↗ | 1,210US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 24.85million peopleShanghai Statistics ↗ | 18.04million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 6,341sq kmShanghai Government ↗ | 41,543sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 3,920people / sq km | 434people / 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.
Shanghai
Integrated circuits
~25%
Share of China's IC industry output value
- Shanghai IC output value
- >CNY 300 billion
The national share is directly published as about 25% and is preserved as approximate. It refers to IC industry output value, not physical chip output; the project does not infer a national denominator from the source's lower-bound Shanghai output value.
Source · Shanghai Municipal People's Government ↗Shanghai
Ocean economy
10.1%
Share of China's ocean output value
- Shanghai gross ocean output value
- CNY 1.11222 trillion
- Real growth of Shanghai gross ocean output value
- +5.0%
The 10.1% national share is directly published in the 2025 Shanghai Ocean Economy Statistical Bulletin and is not recomputed. The bulletin states that 2025 data are preliminary accounting figures and applies the national marine-economy statistical system. Gross ocean output value is the broad ocean-economy measure; do not substitute shipbuilding, port, shipping-service or marine-manufacturing-only metrics.
Source · Shanghai Municipal Oceanic Bureau ↗Shanghai
New-energy vehicles
1.1611 million vehicles
Annual new-energy-vehicle output
- Year-on-year change
- -5.2%
This is full-year physical output among Shanghai above-designated-size industrial enterprises. It is not sales, registrations, production capacity or exports, and no national share is computed.
Source · Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics ↗