Shanghai
China · CNY · share price index, latest 2026-09
The city is a label: every national figure here is China's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.
What households there actually spend on average, which is not a minimum.
¥4,581.67a month · 2024
€565in 2025 prices, at the ECB's 2025 averageExcluding housing ¥3,004 (€370.02)
Average monthly consumption per person, urban residents of Shanghai (¥54,980 a year).
What the figure is made of
Housing · ¥1,577.67 · 34.4%All 8 parts
- Housing¥1,577.67 34.4%
- Food, tobacco and alcohol¥1,156.42 25.2%
- Education, culture and recreation¥477.75 10.4%
- Transport and communication¥478.83 10.4%
- Health care¥380.83 8.3%
- Household goods and services¥188.17 4.1%
- Clothing¥167.58 3.7%
- Other goods and services¥154.42 3.4%
How it has changed since 2015
Shanghai's average spending rose 49% from 2015 to 2024, faster than prices, while national household spending per person rose 97%.
The whole record
Stock market
At 106 in September 2026, 6% above its 2015 level, in yuan and before inflation. The chart below shows what the yuan was worth in euros.
CNY per euro
7.49 yuan to the euro in October 2026, far below the April 2008 record of 11. A rising line is a weaker yuan.
House prices, after inflation
15% below 2010, and still under the 2021 peak.
The economy
- 0.1%
- €409 a month
- $29,160
- 4.6%
- 78 years
What the economy is made of
What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.
How this is calculated
- Average spending
- Urban per-capita consumption expenditure is China's own method: Average consumption, not a minimum: what urban residents actually spend per head, from the household survey. 2024 is used because its total and split are one vintage; 2025's total is ¥57,076 and its split arrives with the 2026 yearbook. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
- Prices
- Adjusted to 2025 prices (+0.1%). China's consumer price index was 132.52 in 2024 and 132.6 in 2025, so × 1.0006: ¥4,584.40 in 2025 prices. The latest published CPI year is the furthest it is carried. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
- In euros
- At 8.118504 CNY per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the carried figure is €564.69. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
- Change since 2015
- Each series divided by its 2015 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. The Shanghai Statistics Bureau publishes urban residents' consumption on the integrated household survey from 2015; earlier years are on the old urban survey and are not spliced on.
- Stock market
- OECD via FRED SPASTT01CNM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in CNY and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
- CNY per euro
- ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker CNY. Latest 2026-10.
- House prices, after inflation
- BIS via FRED QCNR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to China's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
- Sources
Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2025, table 9.14 · 城镇常住居民人均消费支出及构成, 2021–2024 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026
Shanghai Statistics Bureau, 2025 total · published 21 January 2026 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026
Next release: 2026 yearbook (the 2025 split)
World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.