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Yunnan in figures

A biodiverse southwest border province with tourism, clean energy and cross-border trade.

Official standard map

Yunnan Province Map (No Hydrography, Neighboring Regions)

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Yunnan Province Map (No Hydrography, Neighboring Regions) from the official standard-map service of Department of Natural Resources of Yunnan Province, approval no. Yun S (2025) No. 21
Source: Official standard map serviceOfficial Tianditu Yunnan original JPEG · Approval no. Yun S (2025) No. 21 · 14 August 2025 · Scale 1:4,000,000

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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.

Latest official values
Source: Yunnan Statistics ↗ · Yunnan Government ↗ · Yunnan 2024 statistical communique and official geography references.chinainfigures.com

Scope

What the province total covers

Yunnan borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam and spans a large mountainous territory. Province totals combine Kunming with extensive border, rural and highland areas.

Boundary

Province is not a metro area

Resident population is the year-end province-wide total: 46.55 million in 2024. Administrative area (394,100 sq km) is territory inside the provincial boundary, not built-up area.

Economy

How to read the structure

In 2024, Yunnan's GDP reached 3.15 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 3.3 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 13.3%, secondary 32.8%, tertiary 53.9%.

International scale check

Compared with Philippines

Selected for similar economic scale: Philippines.

Not a like-for-like rank

Philippines's nominal GDP (~US$0.46T, World Bank 2024) is close to Yunnan's province-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.45T).

Yunnan is a mountainous southwest border province with tourism, clean energy and cross-border trade; Philippines 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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Yunnan

Chinese province-level region-wide scope

Peer country

Philippines

National territory (sovereign state)

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
MetricYunnanPhilippines
Gross product3.15trillion yuan· 2024≈ US$452B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Yunnan Statistics ↗462US$ billion· 2024World Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗
Population46.55million people· 2024Yunnan Statistics ↗115.84million people· 2024World Bank WDI · Population, total ↗
Area394,100sq km· 2024Yunnan Government ↗300,000sq km· 2023World Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗
Density (derived)118people / sq km386people / 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.