GDP · 2024
2.05
trillion yuanXinjiang Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Xinjiang in figures
China’s largest provincial-level territory, with energy, cotton, agriculture, border trade and very low population density.
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Resident population · 2024
26.23
million peopleXinjiang Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
1,664,900
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: Xinjiang Statistics ↗ · Xinjiang Government ↗ · Xinjiang 2024 official statistical release and official geography reference.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
60.4 percentXinjiang Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
78,660 yuan per personXinjiang Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
47.9 percentXinjiang Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Xinjiang occupies one-sixth of China’s land area and borders eight countries. Region-wide totals combine urban economies with vast mountains, basins, deserts, farms and pastoral areas.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is the year-end region-wide total: 26.23 million in 2024. Administrative land area (1,664,900 sq km) is territory inside the provincial-level boundary, not built-up area. Autonomous-region land area.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Xinjiang's GDP reached 2.05 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 6.1 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 12.5%, secondary 39.6%, tertiary 47.9%.
International scale check
Compared with Portugal
Selected for similar economic scale: Portugal.
Not a like-for-like rank
Portugal's nominal GDP (~US$0.31T, World Bank 2024) is close to Xinjiang's provincial-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.29T).
Xinjiang is China’s largest provincial-level territory with energy, cotton, agriculture and border trade; Portugal 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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Xinjiang
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Portugal
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Xinjiang | Portugal |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 2.05trillion yuan≈ US$295B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Xinjiang Statistics ↗ | 313US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 26.23million peopleXinjiang Statistics ↗ | 10.7million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 1,664,900sq kmXinjiang Government ↗ | 92,230sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 16people / sq km | 116people / 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.
Xinjiang
Cotton
92.8%
Share of China's cotton output
- Xinjiang output
- 6.165 million tonnes
The official 2025 Xinjiang economic-operation press conference directly publishes both Xinjiang cotton output and its national output share under the same annual metric.
Source · Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government Information Office ↗Xinjiang
Processing tomatoes
>80%
Share of China's processing-tomato output
- Processing-tomato output
- 11 million tonnes
- Planted area
- 1.26 million mu
The source says 'more than 80%'; the lower-bound wording must be preserved.
Source · Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of Finance ↗Xinjiang
Specialty forest fruit
~13%
Share of China's comparable forest-fruit area
- Forest-fruit area
- 21.10 million mu
- Fruit output
- 13.78 million tonnes
This is an acreage share for comparable forest-fruit categories, not a share of total fruit output.
Source · Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Forestry and Grassland Administration ↗