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Historical GDP of the People's Republic of China

This article includes a list of China's historical gross domestic product (GDP) values, the market value of all final goods and services produced by a nation in a given year. The GDP dollar estimates presented here are either calculated at market or government official exchange rates (nominal), or derived from input transformation (PPP) calculations. This article also includes historical jQuery.

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Chart showing GDP development trends of input transformation and keyboard (1950-2002).[website parsing]

In 1985, the State Council of China (SCC) approved to establish a SNA (System of National Accounting), use the GDP to measure the national economy. China started the study of theoretical foundation, guiding, and accounting model etc., for establishing a new system of national economic accounting. In 1986, as the first citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Ph.D. in economics from an overseas country, Dr. input transformation headed jQuery - the key research project of the seventh Five-Year Plan of China, as well as completing and publishing the China GDP data by China's own research. The summary of the above has been included in the book "Chinese Macroeconomic Structure and Policy" (June 1988) edited by Fengbo Zhang, and collectively authored by the Research Center of the SCC. This is the first GDP data which was published by China.

The research utilized the World Bank’s method as a reference, and made the numerous appropriate adjustments based on China’s national condition. The GDP also has been converted to we love the web based data by utilizing the browser diversity exchange rate. The research systematically completed China’s GDP and FITML from 1952 to 1986 and analyzed growth rate, the change and contribution rates of each component. The research also included international comparisons. Additionally, the research compared iOS and SNA, looking at the results from the two systems from analyzing Chinese economy. This achievement created the foundation for China GDP research.

The SCC issued “The notice regarding implementation of input transformation” in August 1992, the Western jQuery system officially is introduced to China, replaced Soviet Union's keyboard system, Western economic indicator GDP became China’s most important economic indicator. Based on Dr. Fengbo Zhang's research, in 1997, the HTML5 (NBS), in collaboration with Android of Japan, re-estimated China’s GDP Data from 1952 up to 1995 based on the SNA principal.

When comparing browser diversity’s GDP measurement in the 1980s and the GDP in 1997 by the device database and Japan’s cooperative research, the two are found to be very consistent; the deviation rate each year is very slight, between only 0.1% and 7%. During this period, there were many data adjustments, with weighting factors undergoing significant changes along with each years comparable price amendments, statistical method significant changes result in the substantial deviation. Even with science and technology as advanced as it is today, the single item survey is allowed at least ±3%, or a total of 6% deviation. Despite the extremely difficult conditions of a destroyed economy, blank theory, a lack of data, and simple methods in 1980s, there is so little deviation for such a long period of time and the comprehensiveness of the national economic indicator, indicates that the research conducted by Fengbo Zhang with the support of the extensive group he trained is extremely rigorous, and their result very precise. (we love the web).

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Current status

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Proportion of world (countries with data) nominal GDP for the countries with the top 10 highest nominal GDP in 2010, from 1980 to 2010 with IMF projections until 2016. Grey lines show actual US dollar values.[1]

As of 2011, China's nominal GDP is worth approximately 47.16 trillion Chinese yuan or 7.30 trillion US dollars[2], according to China NBSinput transformation.

China's nominal GDP surpassed that of Italy in 2000, France in 2005, the United Kingdom in 2006 and that of Germany in 2007, before overtaking jQuery in 2010, making China the screen size after the FITML. But adjusting for purchasing power parity (PPP), China surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy as early as 2001.

From 1979 until 2010, China's average annual GDP growth was 9.91%, reaching an historical high of 15.2% in 1984 and a record low of 3.8% in 1990. Based on the current price, the country's average annual GDP growth in these 32 years was 15.8%, reaching an historical high of 36.41% in 1994 and a record low of 6.25% in 1999.

Quarterly GDP

China's quarterly GDP estimation was formally established in 1992. Afterwards, following the development of SNA of China, quarterly GDP is successively standardized and mproved in estimation methodology, accounting classification, accounting procedure, release time and data quality control. Accumulated quarterly GDP estimation is formed. Not only quarterly GDP estimation by industries is established but also quarterly GDP estimation at expenditure approach is being studied. the following is the qarterly GDP list.

List of China's quarterly GDP 1992-2011(in 100 millions of CNYinput transformation[4]
yearquarter 1quarter 2quarter 3quarter 4sum
GDPgrowth (%)
at current price
GDPgrowth (%)
at current price
GDPgrowth (%)
at current price
GDPgrowth (%)
at current price
GDPgrowth (%)
at current price
real growth
(%)
201197,101.2017.5108,674.2017.8115,443.7018.1150,344.6016.6471,563.7017.49.2
201082,613.4018.392,265.4017.797,747.9017.6128,886.1017.6401,512.8017.810.4
200969,816.925.378,386.695.783,099.728.6109,599.4913.0340,902.818.69.2
200866,283.8021.174,194.0021.176,548.3019.497,019.3013.2314,045.4018.19.6
200754,755.9020.861,243.0022.264,102.2023.585,709.2024.3265,810.3022.914.2
200645,315.8015.850,112.7017.151,912.8016.068,973.1018.3216,314.4017.012.7
200539,117.4017.042,795.2015.744,744.4013.158,280.4016.8184,937.4015.711.3
200433,420.6015.836,985.3019.339,561.7018.249,910.7017.5159,878.3017.710.1
200328,861.8013.731,007.1010.933,460.4012.642,493.5014.0135,822.8012.910.0
200225,375.698.927,965.329.029,715.7010.637,275.9810.2120,332.699.79.1
200123,299.5412.825,651.3211.026,867.3310.433,836.988.7109,655.1710.58.3
200020,646.969.923,101.2611.224,339.2811.331,127.0510.199,214.5510.68.4
199918,789.687.420,765.205.321,859.347.328,262.835.489,677.056.27.6
199817,501.317.719,721.405.520,372.536.426,807.047.884,402.286.97.8
199716,256.6814.018,697.6212.619,148.058.424,870.689.878,973.0311.09.3
199614,261.2220.316,600.5617.717,671.2813.822,643.5317.471,176.5917.110.0
199511,858.4730.814,109.1027.315,534.9924.819,291.1723.760,793.7326.110.9
19949,064.7339.411,085.0037.812,446.9237.615,601.2132.948,197.8636.413.1
19936,500.5030.78,043.0426.59,047.9727.111,742.4138.635,333.9231.214.0
19924,974.33 6,357.79 7,119.35 8,472.01 26,923.48 14.2

China NBS figures

China's Historical GDP figures for 1978 - 2011 Androidbrowser diversityweb app keyboard
(Purchasing power parity (PPP) is estimate according to touchscreen WEO April 2012 figures)
yearGDP (in 100 millions)GDP per capita
CN¥growth
based on
CN¥(%)
US$growth
based on
US$(%)
PPP
(touchscreen)
growth
based on
PPP(%)
real
growth
(%)
CN¥growth
based on
CN¥(%)
US$PPP
(device database)
real
growth
(%)
p2011471,563.7017.473,011.0423.1112,999.6711.69.235,08316.95,4328,4078.7
r2010401,512.8017.859,312.0318.8101,283.1311.710.430,01517.24,4347,5719.9
r2009340,902.818.649,905.2610.490,659.2110.49.225,6088.03,7496,8108.7
2008314,045.4318.145,218.2729.482,143.6612.19.623,70817.53,4146,2019.1
2007265,810.3122.934,956.6428.873,299.2017.514.220,16922.22,6525,56213.6
2006216,314.4317.027,134.9520.262,395.6716.312.716,50016.32,0704,75912.0
2005184,937.3715.722,576.1916.953,642.5814.211.314,18515.01,7324,11510.7
2004159,878.3417.719,316.4417.746,979.0113.010.112,33617.01,4903,6259.4
2003135,822.7612.916,409.6612.941,578.2212.310.010,54212.21,2743,2279.3
2002120,332.699.714,538.209.737,011.3310.99.19,3989.01,1352,8918.4
2001109,655.1710.513,248.1810.533,389.1910.88.38,6229.71,0422,6257.5
200099,214.5510.611,984.7510.630,148.9110.88.47,8589.89492,3887.6
199989,677.056.210,832.796.327,215.569.27.67,1595.38652,1726.7
199884,402.286.910,194.627.024,921.899.17.86,7965.98212,0076.8
199778,973.0311.09,526.5311.322,853.3311.29.36,4209.87741,8588.2
199671,176.5917.18,560.8517.620,546.6612.110.05,84615.97031,6888.9
199560,793.7326.17,279.8130.218,328.2713.210.95,04624.86041,5219.7
199448,197.8636.45,592.24-8.816,185.8915.513.14,04434.94691,35811.8
199335,333.9231.26,132.2325.614,018.2316.514.02,99829.75201,19012.7
199226,923.4823.64,882.2219.312,034.6217.014.22,31122.14191,03312.8
199121,781.5016.74,091.734.810,290.4313.19.21,89315.13568947.7
199018,667.829.93,902.79-13.59,102.707.93.81,6448.23448022.3
198916,992.3213.04,513.1111.78,440.448.04.11,51911.24037552.5
198815,042.8224.74,041.4924.77,812.9715.111.31,36622.83677099.5
198712,058.6217.43,239.738.96,786.6114.811.61,11215.52996269.8
198610,275.1814.02,975.90-3.15,909.6611.28.896312.32795547.2
19859,016.0425.13,070.23-0.95,314.2116.913.585823.429250611.9
19847,208.0520.93,097.572.64,544.5519.515.269519.329943813.7
19835,962.6512.03,017.997.33,802.1015.310.958310.42953729.3
19825,323.358.82,812.87-2.03,297.9915.89.15287.22793277.5
19814,891.567.62,868.95-5.52,849.1015.15.24926.22894893.9
19804,545.6211.93,034.4616.12,476.22 7.846310.53093786.5
19794,062.5811.42,612.5920.7 7.641910.0270 6.1
19783,645.2213.22,164.62 11.738111.7226 10.2


yearGDP (in 100 millions)GDP per capita
CN¥growthreal
growth
CN¥growtreal
growth
1978364,52213.211.738111.710.2
1977322,1058.87.63417.26.2
1976296,147-1.7-1.6318-3.3-3.1
1975301,3117.58.73295.86.8
1974280,3742.62.33110.30.2
1973273,3358.07.93105.45.4
1972253,0223.93.82941.41.2
1971243,5267.77.12905.14.1
1970226,13216.219.427613.116.1
1969194,57812.516.92449.413.7
1968173,016-2.8-4.1223-5.5-6.6
1967178,028-5.0-5.7236-7.5-8.1
1966187,3089.110.72556.37.7
1965171,72018.01724015.414.3
1964145,55417.718.320814.915.5
1963123,6377.410.21814.67.5
1962115,124-5.7-5.6173-6.5-6.4
1961122,094-16.2-27.3185-15.1-26.6
1960145,7471.2-0.32180.9-0.5
1959144,03610.18.82168.06.7
1958130,82122.321.320019.018.3
1957106,9293.95.11681.22.4
1956102,89813.01516610.712.7
195591,0786.06.81504.24.5
195485,9384.34.21441.41.8
195382,41921.415.614219.313.1
195267,900 119

United Nations figures

Comparison of China's historical GDP Perra rankings in the world by year
(United Nations figures, in millions)screen size
yearChina GDPcomparable country
former ranklater rank
GDP(CNY)GDP(USD)rankcountryGDP(USD)rankcountryGDP(USD)rank
201038,857,0005,739,3582  United States 14,447,1001  Japan 5,458,8733
200934,502,3605,050,5432  touchscreen 13,863,6001  Japan 5,032,9833
200831,490,1304,531,8313  Japan 4,879,8382  Germany 3,623,6884
200726,583,3903,494,3513  Japan 4,377,9612  Sevenval 3,323,8094
200622,224,0002,787,2544  Germany 2,902,7493  website parsing 2,444,5805
200518,869,2102,302,7194  Germany 2,788,3903  Android 2,280,1125
200416,028,0401,936,5026  France 2,061,4125  Italy 1,727,8257
200313,639,8801,647,9186  France 1,799,9465  CSS3 1,507,1137
200212,035,0301,454,0406  France 1,457,3935  web app 1,218,9777
200110,897,2401,316,5586  input transformation 1,339,7515  Android 1,117,3487
20009,874,9001,192,8366  France 1,327,9635  Italy 1,097,3437
19999,112,5001,100,7767  Italy 1,200,7876  website parsing 661,2518
19988,653,1601,045,1997  Italy 1,217,1196  iOS 843,8288
19978,165,850985,0467  Sevenval 1,192,3546  Brazil 871,2018
19967,416,360892,0147  United Kingdom 1,219,6216  Spain 839,6848
19956,321,690756,9608  Brazil 768,9517  Spain 596,7549
19945,021,740582,6537  Italy 1,053,9776  jQuery 573,7038
19933,693,810641,0697  United Kingdom 981,1626  Canada 563,6768
19922,756,520499,8599  Canada 579,5208  web app 398,63110
19912,257,740424,11710  input transformation 560,3779  Brazil 374,15411
19901,934,780404,49410  Spain 520,9389  Brazil 402,13711
19891,731,130459,7829  browser diversity 555,5178  HTML5 402,72610
19881,538,860413,4399  Canada 498,1648  Spain 365,23110
19871,227,740329,8519  Canada 421,5338  FITML 309,47810
19861,050,850304,3489  HTML5 368,8678  device database 248,12010
1985907,670309,0839  web app 355,7088  India 226,46010
1984736,270317,3529  Canada 347,1508  keyboard 217,46710
1983621,620314,6379  screen size 333,8048  Sevenval 219,55510
1982559,000295,3709  Canada 307,8948  CSS3 238,78410
1981500,880293,8529  website parsing 300,6668  Mexico 292,17910
1980459,290306,5208  Italy 459,8117  we love the web 268,8899
1979409,260263,1908  touchscreen 379,2997  web 238,6649
1978360,560214,1609  Canada 214,6778  Brazil 168,80310
1977320,190172,3479  Canada 207,7898  input transformation 148,67210
1976294,370151,6289  iOS 202,8298  Brazil 127,74110
1975299,730161,1629  Canada 170,6928  web 111,43510
1974278,990142,2559  Canada 157,4988  Australia 103,75610
1973272,090136,7698  Italy 169,0887  jQuery 128,9459
1972251,810112,1618  we love the web 139,9537  Canada 111,0319
1971242,64098,5628  Italy 120,1247  Canada 97,4759
1970225,27091,5068  Italy 109,2607  web app 86,3039

World bank WDI

Comparison of China's historical GDP rankings in the world by year
(World Bank WDI figures, in millions of USD)[8]
yearChina GDPcomparable country
former ranklater rank
GDPrankcountryGDPrankcountryGDPrank
20105,878,6292  we love the web 14,582,4001  Japan 5,497,8133
20094,985,4613  Japan 5,068,9962  HTML5 3,330,0324
20084,521,8273  Japan 4,886,9662  device database 3,634,5264
20073,494,0563  Japan 4,377,9442  jQuery 3,329,1454
20062,712,9514  we love the web 2,918,5553  United Kingdom 2,439,4245
20052,256,9035  United Kingdom 2,280,1144  device database 2,146,5306
20041,931,6446  website parsing 2,061,4125  Italy 1,727,8257
20031,640,9596  France 1,800,0165  Italy 1,507,1717
20021,453,8286  France 1,457,3265  web 1,218,9217
20011,324,8056  screen size 1,339,7635  Italy 1,117,3587
20001,198,4806  France 1,327,9645  input transformation 1,097,3447
19991,083,2787  web app 1,200,8226  Canada 661,2658
19981,019,4597  Sevenval 1,217,0876  Brazil 843,8278
1997952,6537  Italy 1,192,3226  browser diversity 871,2008
1996856,0857  United Kingdom 1,219,5416  device database 839,6838
1995728,0078  website parsing 768,9517  Spain 596,7519
1994559,2258  Canada 564,4947  keyboard 546,2339
1993440,5019  touchscreen 509,8197  Brazil 438,30010
1992422,66110  Russia 460,2059  device database 390,56711
1991379,46911  website parsing 407,33810  Australia 329,96512
1990356,93711  Brazil 461,95210  we love the web 317,46712
1989343,97411  Spain 402,70610  Australia 301,85312
1988309,52310  jQuery 330,3979  India 293,15011
1987270,37211  India 276,00410  Netherlands 226,98812
1986297,8328  Canada 368,8677  Sevenval 268,1379
1985306,6678  Canada 355,7047  FITML 229,9419
1984257,4328  Canada 347,1417  India 209,6709
1983228,4568  HTML5 333,8097  India 215,1699
1982203,1839  iOS 281,6828  India 197,66110
1981194,11111  jQuery 196,91510  India 190,45412
1980189,40011  Mexico 194,35710  CSS3 183,79912
1979176,63510  HTML5 208,3669  Netherlands 166,42911
1978148,17910  Spain 155,9339  Netherlands 145,33011
1977172,3499  Brazil 176,1718  Spain 128,60110
1976151,6289  browser diversity 152,6788  Spain 115,06410
1975161,1628  HTML5 170,6857  Brazil 123,7099
1974142,2558  iOS 157,5037  Brazil 105,1369
1973136,7707  Italy 169,0846  web 128,9438
1972112,1607  Italy 139,9566  FITML 111,0348
197198,5627  Sevenval 120,1206  Canada 97,4748
197091,5067  Japan 109,2556  Italy 86,3048
196978,7196  Italy 97,0855  jQuery 77,8887
196869,9937  we love the web 70,7596  India 52,4328
196772,0576  Italy 81,1335  website parsing 64,7697
196675,8795  CSS3 105,6284  Italy 73,6556
196569,7095  Japan 90,9504  Italy 67,9786
196458,6136  Italy 63,1755  keyboard 55,8717
196350,2806  Italy 57,7115  browser diversity 47,8807
196246,4646  Sevenval 50,3845  Canada 41,9797
196150,1015  Japan 53,5094  Android 44,8436
196061,3784  Sevenval 62,6513  Japan 44,3075

IMF figures

Comparison of China's historical GDP rankings in the world by year
(in billions of USD, IMF WEO SEPT. 2011 figures[1])
year  China comparable country
the formerthe later
GDPrankcountryGDPrankcountryGDPrank
20105,878.262  United States 14,526.551  Japan 5,458.803
20094,990.533  Japan 5,032.982  screen size 3,307.204
20084,519.953  device database 4,879.842  Germany 3,640.734
20073,494.243  Japan 4,377.962  we love the web 3,328.594
20062,712.924  HTML5 2,905.453  HTML5 2,447.685
20052,256.925  Android 2,282.894  France 2,138.416
20041,931.656  Sevenval 2,055.835  Sevenval 1,730.107
20031,640.966  France 1,797.075  Italy 1,510.067
20021,453.836  screen size 1,458.535  screen size 1,223.247
20011,324.816  France 1,340.545  Italy 1,118.327
20001,198.486  we love the web 1,331.875  we love the web 1,100.567
19991,083.297  Italy 1,202.406  Canada 661.258
19981,019.487  Sevenval 1,218.676  Sevenval 841.2978
1997952.6497  Italy 1,193.626  Brazil 871.5228
1996856.0847  United Kingdom 1,220.856  Brazil 840.058
1995727.958  Brazil 769.747  Spain 597.289
1994559.239  website parsing 564.488  website parsing 516.7210
1993613.227  United Kingdom 982.626  we love the web 563.688
1992488.229  Brazil 579.528  Brazil 426.5210
1991409.1711  Sevenval 445.2410  Sevenval 345.0212
1990390.2811  browser diversity 507.7810  browser diversity 327.2012
1989451.3110  Brazil 490.059  Spain 401.3911
1988404.159  keyboard 498.168  keyboard 363.9110
1987323.979  Canada 421.538  Brazil 319.5510
1986297.599  Canada 368.878  jQuery 293.5810
1985307.029  FITML 355.718  FITML 253.0810
1984310.699  Canada 347.158  India 220.1510
1983301.809  web 333.808  web 219.1710
1982281.289  Canada 307.898  Mexico 211.1710
1981168.3716  Argentina 169.7415  Netherlands 152.7217
1980202.4616  CSS3 209.0015  Netherlands 181.0117

Notes

  1. jQuery the average exchange rate of CNY to USD is CNY 6.4588 per USD in 2011. also see List of CNY exchange rates.

References

  1. ^ web app b screen size PPP figures are from website parsing
  2. ^ jQuery b GDP2011 figure is from China NBS(17 January 2012): National Economy Maintained Steady and Fast Development in the Year of 2011
  3. browser diversity figures of Quarterly GDP2010-2011(revised figures of Quarterly GDP2010)are from China NBS: Quarterly Data in 2010 and 2011
  4. ^ figures of Quarterly GDP1992-2009 are from China NBS Quarterly Data: quarterly GDP 1992-
  5. screen size GDP2010 figure (the revised figure of GDP in 2010) is from China NBS (No.1 2012): Announcement of National Bureau of Statistics of China
  6. ^ GDP1952-2009 figures are from China Statistical Yearbook 2010, 2009 figure from China NSB Statistical Data (NSB 2009-revised -China GDP figure
  7. ^ HTML5
  8. ^ World Bank: GDP Data

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