10 Mind-Boggling Facts About China's Massive Manufacturing Sector
China produces nearly 17 times as many air conditioners per person than the rest of the world.
China manufactures more than 40 times as many personal computers per person than the rest of the world.
Chinese PC production:
320.4 million units
China as a percent of global total:
90.6 percent
China produces 238.3 PC units per 1,000 people compared with 5.9 units in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China makes more than 16 times as many energy saving lamps per person than the rest of the world.
Chinese energy saving lamps production:
4.3 billion
China as a percent of global total:
80.0 percent
China's got 3.2 lamps per capita, compared to 0.2 in per capita in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China produces nearly six times as much pork per person as the rest of the world.
Chinese pork production:
51.5 million tons
China as a percent of global total:
49.8 percent
China produces 38.3 kgs (approx. 84 pounds) of pork per person, compared with 6.7 kgs (approx. 15 pounds) per person in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China has over 11 times as much solar cell production capacity per person as the rest of the world.
Chinese solar cell production capacity:
21.8 gigawatts
China as a percent of global total:
74 percent
China has solar cell production capacity of 16.2 kilowatts (KW) per capita, compared with 1.4 KW per capita in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China makes more than seven times as many pair of shoes per person as the rest of the world.
Chinese shoe production:
12.6 billion pairs
China as a percent of global total:
63.0 percent
China produces 9.4 pairs of shoes per person, compared with 1.3 pairs in the rest of the world.
Note this data is as of 2010.
Source: BAML
China manufactures 10 times as many cell phones per person compared with the rest of the world.
Chinese cell phone production:
1.1 billion units
China as percent of global total:
70.6 percent
China produces 840.7 units per 1,000 people, compared with 83.6 units per 1,000 people in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China produces more than six times as much cement per person as the rest of the world.
Chinese cement production:
1.8 billion tons
China as a percent of global total:
60 percent
China produces 1,390 kgs (approx 3,064 pounds) of cement per person, compared with 221 kgs (approx. 487 pounds) per person in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China mines more than four times as much coal per person than the rest of the world.
Chinese coal production:
1.8 billion tons of oil equivalent
China as a percent of global total:
48.2 percent
China produces 1.3 tons of oil equivalent per capita, compared with 0.3 tons per capita in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
China has three times as much shipbuilding capacity per capita as the rest of the world.
Chinese shipbuilding capacity:
76.6 million metric tons
China as a percent of global total:
45.1 percent
China has 57.0 tons of shipbuilding capacity per thousand people, compared with 16.6 tons per thousand people in the rest of the world.
Source: BAML
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