GDP · 2024
6.47
trillion yuanSichuan Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Sichuan in figures
Western China’s leading provincial economy, with Chengdu as the primary hub.
Official standard map
Official relief standard map of Sichuan (16-kai)
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![Official relief standard map of Sichuan (16-kai) from the official standard-map service of Sichuan Bureau of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, approval no. Chuan S [2024] 00144](/images/provinces/sichuan-standard-map-terrain-16k.jpg)
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Resident population · 2024
83.64
million peopleSichuan Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
486,000
sq kmSichuan 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: Sichuan Statistics ↗ · Sichuan Government ↗ · Sichuan 2024 statistical communique and official geography references.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
60.1 percentSichuan Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
77,333 yuan per personSichuan Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
56 percentSichuan Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Sichuan is the largest provincial economy in western China. Chengdu dominates the urban system, but province-wide statistics also include large mountainous and ethnic autonomous areas. Related city profiles on this site: Chengdu.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is year-end province-wide. It mixes dense coastal/core cities with less urban inland counties. Administrative area (486,000 sq km) is land inside the provincial boundary, not built-up area.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Sichuan’s GDP reached 6.47 trillion yuan. Services contributed 56.0 percent of the structure. 2024 industry structure: primary 8.7%, secondary 35.3%, tertiary 56.0%. Real GDP growth was 5.7%.
International scale check
Compared with Switzerland
Selected for similar economic scale: Switzerland.
Not a like-for-like rank
Switzerland’s nominal GDP (~US$0.94T, UN 2024) is close to Sichuan’s province GDP after USD conversion (~US$0.93T).
Sichuan is a large inland Chinese province; Switzerland is a compact high-income country. GDP similarity does not imply similar density or industrial structure.
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Sichuan
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Switzerland
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Sichuan | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 6.47trillion yuan≈ US$928B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Sichuan Statistics ↗ | 937US$ billionUN / Wikipedia countries by nominal GDP ↗ |
| Population | 83.64million peopleSichuan Statistics ↗ | 8.96million peopleSwiss FSO / UN population estimates ↗ |
| Area | 486,000sq kmSichuan Government ↗ | 41,285sq kmSwiss FSO / national area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 172people / sq km | 217people / 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.
Yibin, Sichuan
Yibin power-battery cluster
>15%
Share of China power-battery sales
- 2023 cluster output value
- CNY 101.3 billion
- Built power-battery capacity
- 180 GWh
This is a Yibin city-cluster sales-share fact, not a province-wide Sichuan share. Preserve the source lower-bound wording (>15%) and do not reinterpret sales share as output or installed-capacity share.
Source · Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology ↗Sichuan Basin
Sichuan Basin natural gas
~1/3
Share of China natural-gas resources
- Sichuan Basin total natural-gas resources
- ~40 trillion m³
- Southwest Petroleum Bureau annual gas output
- >10 billion m³
The directly published national share refers to total natural-gas resources of the Sichuan Basin, whose geography extends beyond the administrative boundary of Sichuan Province. Keep the basin-cluster scope explicit and retain the approximate one-third wording.
Source · State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Sichuan Province ↗