Asia
Overview
Demography
Capital: Concelho de Macau
Currency: Macanese pataca (MOP)
Population: 687,000 (2024)
Population density: 20569.70/km2 (2023)
Conventions
Numbering system
Arabic numerals with dot as decimal separator
Date format: dd/mm/yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00853
Economy
GDP: 52.06 billion USD (2025)
GDP per capita: 74,465.49 USD (2025)
Exports: 2 billion USD (2024)
Imports: 12 billion USD (2024)
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Statistics
Internet users: 89.4% penetration, 646 thousand
Unemployment rate: 1.70% (2025)
Urbanisation: 100.00% (2024)
Language data sources: Worlddata / EF; Demography data sources: World Bank / Worlddata / IBAN; Economy data sources: IMF / World Bank / OEC / T-index; Statistics data sources: IMF / DataReportal / World Bank / WIPO
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Economy
GDP
$52.06 billion (2025)
Product Imports
$12 billion (2024)
Service Imports
$5.96 billion (2024)
Market Growth Imports
-0.53% of annual growth
GDP Growth (annual %)
4.70%
GDP per Capita
$74,465.49 (2025)
Product Exports
$2 billion (2024)
Service Exports
$39.95 billion (2024)
Market Growth Exports
6.81% of annual growth
Economy data sources: IMF / World Bank / OEC / T-index / Joy of Creating / BrandNav / DataReportal / StartupBlink
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
Source: WorldBank
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Media language Chinese, Portuguese and English
The press
Macao Daily News, Va Kio Daily, Hoje Macau, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, Ponto Final, Macau Daily Times, MacauNews
Media data source: BBC
Internet Data
Internet users
89.4% penetration, 646 thousand
Share of web traffic by device
60.14% mobile phones, 36.63% laptop and desktop computers, 3.22% tablet devices and 0.01% other devices
Median speed of fixed Internet connection
305.33 Mbps (Download)
258.46 Mbps (Upload)
Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 218%
Most popular web search engines
Google (89.39%), Yahoo! (4.59%), Bing (4.45%), Baidu (1.04%), DuckDuckGo (0.13%), Yandex (0.13%), Coc Coc (0.07%), Others (0.20%)
Share of AI web traffic referrals
DeepSeek (40.58%), Microsoft Copilot (31.88%), Perplexity (23.19%), ChatGPT (4.35%), Others (0%)
Most used social media
Facebook (53.88%), X (24.80%), Pinterest (8.00%), YouTube (4.40%), Reddit (3.71%), Instagram (3.36%)
Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 100%
Internet data sources: DataReportal / Statcounter
Social statistics
Life expectancy
83.18 yrs (2023)
Current education expenditure
84.22% of total expenditure in public institutions
Religion
Buddhists (50.0%), Roman Catholics (15.0%), other (35.0%)
Social statistics sources: World Bank / Transparency International / Worldometer / World Population Review / World Happiness Report
Research & Development
R&D Expenditure
0.26% of GDP
Research & Development sources: World Bank / OEC / WIPO / IMD