Talk:Historical GDP of China

The First China GDP by Dr. Fengbo Zhang and State Council of China (1987)

Year	GDP(milCN￥)	GDP(10milUS$)	Per Capita(US$)	Period	Growth Rate
1952	68,090	2,854	49.7
1953	81,960	3,279	55.8	1953~1957	8.88%
1954	86,470	3,368	55.9
1955	91,090	3,621	58.9	1958~1960	9.19%
1956	101,960	4,138	65.9
1957	104,960	4,264	65.9	1961~1965	-0.17%
1958	129,240	5,250	79.6
1959	141,260	5,738	85.4	1966~1978	6.62%
1960	141,030	5,729	86.5
1961	115,130	4,677	71.0	1979~1986	8.76%
1962	106,810	4,339	64.5
1963	115,600	4,696	67.9	1953~1986	6.64%
1964	134,790	5,475	77.7
1965	160,340	6,513	89.8
1966	183,340	7,447	99.9
1967	171,890	6,983	91.4
1968	163,570	6,644	84.6
1969	186,920	7,593	94.1
1970	222,650	9,045	109.0
1971	240,100	10,049	117.9
1972	246,920	11,063	126.9
1973	267,960	12,975	145.4
1974	271,430	14,014	154.2
1975	290,100	15,103	163.4
1976	281,290	14,912	159.2
1977	304,640	16,767	176.5
1978	348,860	20,536	213.3
1979	389,270	24,653	252.7
1980	428,550	27,019	273.7
1981	457,850	26,955	269.4
1982	495,980	26,700	262.9
1983	550,570	26,663	260.1
1984	655,330	27,157	262.4
1985	796,130	27,401	262.1
1986	909,090

Sources: WikiChina: China GDP,

• Chinese Macroeconomic Structure and Policy (1988) Editor: Fengbo Zhang, collectively authored by the Research Center of the State Council of China.

Usanjlb (talk) 16:20, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Data of three International organizations

There's a lot of great data here but this table/graph/chart is absurdly complex and difficult to read. 69.78.100.101 (talk) 17:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

This Is Another Article Written By the Chinese Government

This whole article is written by non-English speakers in the Chinese government, and the parts that are "sourced" are Chinese government sources, just the author quoting himself.

The section "Current status" has a wholly unsourced paragraph that has nothing to do with the current status, and also shows the author doesn't know the difference between "become" and "became":

China's nominal GDP by Expenditure approach surpassed that of Italy in 2000, France in 2002, the United Kingdom in 2006 and that of Germany in 2007, before overtaking Japan in 2009, making China the world's second largest economy after the United States. But adjusting for purchasing power parity (PPP), China surpassed Japan and become the world's second largest economy as early as 2002.

The author also doesn't understand what the word record means, as in, hottest temperature on record, as a later section says, "a record low of 6.25% in 1999", when other periods were lower than that.

The table halfway down is comical, having columns for "the former" and "the later".

If Wiki is going to allow governments to write articles about themselves, then there should be some oversight, discussion, and editing, so the articles can be more than chamber of commerce press releases and forward projections.75.79.161.13 (talk) 02:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

GDP Growth Rate of China is Confusing USD One Trillion to USD 11 Trillion in Just 15 Years

The GDP of China in year 2000 was $1.029.04 Trillion USD... In just 15 years they achieved 11 trillion dollars in 2015... They grew by 10% in the initial years, but reached up to 14% around 2007 ... Then the rate reduced to around ~9 and later to ~7 percentage points... When I compute GDP growth with 10% rate consistently starting with data in year 2000 it comes to only $4.3 trillion USD... Computing with a consistent rate of 15% per year growth rate the total comes only to $8.4 trillion USD.. I am surprised how is this calculation of 11 trillion comes into picture?... I understand China undertook certain GDP calculation adjustments earlier in the decade... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.135.203.249 (talk) 00:23, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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Annual GDP: there are questions that need to be answered

The data given is for nominal prices. It is consistent with that produced by the UN at National Accounts Main Aggregates Database. The latter also gives real GDP at 2010 prices in RMB. Accordingly, real growth rates can be calculated. The UN data goes back only to 1970. Using it produces different growth rates to those given here. The difference is large in both directions until about 20 years ago. The differences need explaining. The reference to "China NBS: National data - annual - national accounts - Gross Domestic Product" given in Footnote 4 does not help. That contains the same nominal data but no real data except for an index that goes back to 1978. BHCASEY (talk) 13:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC) (--Robertiki (talk) 02:14, 4 March 2018 (UTC) moved question from article space)

Accuracy

It's an "open secret" that official GDP figures are exaggerated, as a result of fabrication on the regional and national levels. The Chinese government itself has admitted as such:

https://qz.com/887709/chinas-liaoning-province-admitted-that-it-inflated-gdp-figures-from-2011-to-2014/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-wikileaks/chinas-gdp-is-man-made-unreliable-top-leader-idUSTRE6B527D20101206
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/03/07/chinas-economy-might-be-nearly-a-seventh-smaller-than-reported

Why is non of this mentioned in the Wikipedia article on China's GDP? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Q746371 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

The GDP data of all countries are exaggerated to varying degrees, and there is no need to single out China.Ewanma (talk) 02:27, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

This is simply not true: China's GDP has a level of exaggeration very different from e.g. Luxembourg. It is known that there are various systematic problems in the incentives and reporting not present in other countries.

I agree, it's extremely concerning that this article makes no mention of this and suggests foul play. DenverCoder9 (talk) 22:55, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Misleading Title

The article is currently titled "Historical GDP of China" but the earliest estimates are for 1952, so it excludes the vast majority of Chnese history. 173.79.50.41 (talk) 23:39, 13 June 2022 (UTC)