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Economy and finance
Read output, consumption, investment and public finance together instead of treating one headline number as the whole economy.
Gross domestic product
140.1879trillion yuan · 2025Household consumption
29,476yuan per person · 2025Investment and capital formation
49.11trillion yuan · 2025Government debt
99.2%percent of GDP · China · 2025Read together
Related does not mean interchangeable
GDP describes aggregate output; consumption and investment show different demand-side lenses, while government debt adds a balance-sheet constraint. Their definitions and price bases should be compared before drawing a single narrative from the numbers.
Related indicators
8 published measures
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product
China’s 2025 GDP, real growth, per-capita value, industry structure and quarterly growth.
Household consumption
Household consumption
Per-capita expenditure alongside national-accounts history and international comparison.
Investment and capital formation
Investment and capital formation
Domestic fixed-asset investment separated from internationally comparable capital formation.
Retail sales and e-commerce
Retail sales and e-commerce
China's 2017–2025 retail and online-sales trends, plus a fixed 2016–2024 UNCTAD multi-economy enterprise e-commerce comparison.
China vs. United States in the Fortune Global 500
China vs. United States in the Fortune Global 500
Fortune's annual China-total and United States company counts from 2017 to 2026, with same-edition sources and a transparent bilateral gap.
Passenger-car retail by brand origin
Passenger-car retail by brand origin
Track China’s 2015–2025 brand-origin retail shares and the annual CPCA manufacturer Top 10 from 2018 to 2025.
Government debt
Government debt
China's IMF WEO general-government gross debt ratio, same-vintage comparison with major economies and April 2026 projections through 2031.
Household credit annual net change
Household credit annual net change
China and Japan household-credit cycles from the same BIS break-adjusted series, with domestic-currency net changes and a percentage comparison.
International context
World shares require matching source, year and definition
Use China and the World to see which totals support defensible global shares and which rates, per-capita measures or rankings need a different comparison.
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