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China

China's best placing is 2nd of 195 for population.

Best placing: #2Population
Top 10 placings: 6 / 17
Population: 1.41 billion
Land area: 9.4 million km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking China is.

Population

#2 of 195

1,406,585,000 people

2nd in Asia · World Bank · 2025

Land area

#2 of 194

9,388,210 km² of land

1st in Asia · World Bank · 2023

GDP

#2 of 182

19,498,039,388,043 US$ (current prices)

1st in Asia · World Bank · 2025

Railways

#2 of 135

150,000 km of railway

1st in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Forest

#5 of 194

2,256,169 km² of forest

1st in Asia · World Bank · 2023

Coastline

#10 of 151

14,500 km of coastline

4th in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Airports

#16 of 193

552 airports

2nd in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#63 of 194

149.82 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

GDP per person

#68 of 182

13,862 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Railways by area

#53 of 133

15.98 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Railways per person

#76 of 134

106.64 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Forest by area

#113 of 194

24.0 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#121 of 194

0.0016 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Land area per person

#132 of 194

0.007 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#122 of 179

645 mm of precipitation per year

23rd in Asia · World Bank · 2022

Airports by area

#176 of 191

0.59 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Airports per person

#185 of 192

0.39 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

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