China GDP Annual Growth Rate
How much bigger or smaller the economy is than a year earlier, adjusted for inflation.
4.3%
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Q1 1993 to Q2 2026
Source: OECD quarterly national accounts (DF_QNA, table T0101) · real GDP, change on the same quarter a year earlier.
China GDP Annual Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In China, the GDP annual growth rate fell by 0.9pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 5.2% in Q2 2025.
It is the lowest reading since Q4 2022.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.8% in Q2 2022 to 8.1% in Q2 2021.
Its average since Q1 1993 is 8.5%, and the latest reading is below that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- quarterly
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
This is the growth figure China's National Bureau of Statistics headlines.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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