6 Regions in China with a total over 200 million people have per Capita GDP over $10,000

Tweet Per capita GDP in six municipalities, provinces and regions including Beijing, Zhejiang and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region surpassed $10,000 in 2012. For the first time, per capita GDP in East China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as well as North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region surpassed $10,000 in 2012, while the per capita GDP in three municipalities - Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai - stayed above $10,000 last year.

Most economists are projecting 8.2 to 8.4% GDP growth for China in 2013 and 2014.

The World Bank classifies high income economies as those with per capita GDP of $12,476 or more.

Wikipedia had per capita GDP for China's provinces as of 2011.

By the end of 2014 the top ten provinces will all be over per capita $10,000 and the top 6 will be over $12500 per capita.


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