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China: Imports

Millions of local currency · 1850–2025 · 172 observations · forecasts to 2031 · imports

2025
23.7 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−0.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.4%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$3.3 trillionUS dollars

Imports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203131,351,324Forecast
203029,756,314Forecast
202928,238,498Forecast
202826,730,082Forecast
202725,279,278Forecast
202624,177,772Forecast
202523,717,376
202423,745,548
202322,544,356
202221,652,672
202120,362,018
202016,607,756
201917,442,854
201817,170,870
201715,202,167
201613,176,272

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1850–1938
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1864–2014
  • Mitchell1865–2010
  • Historical Financial Statistics1936–1947
  • National Bureau of Statistics of China1950–2023
  • Penn World Table1952–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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