China completed six in ten of 2025's new skyscrapers
Buildings 200m or taller completed in 2025, by country or territory.
- 1. China now builds more ships than everyone else combined
- 2. China makes more electricity than the US and EU combined
- 3. China installs more robots than everyone else combined
- 4. China is building half the world's new reactors
- 5. China switched on 80% of the world's new coal power
- 6. China's vehicle exports grew sevenfold in five years
- 7. Six of the world's ten busiest ports are in China
- 8. China completed six in ten of 2025's new skyscrapers
- 9. China has more metro track than the next six combined
- 10. China refines most of the minerals of the future
- 11. China's new housing starts have fallen 74% since 2019
- 12. China is building more power capacity than everyone else combined
of the 141 buildings 200m+ completed worldwide in 2025 were in mainland China (60%).
completed in Shenzhen alone. That beats every country except China. The US and Malaysia had 10 each.
of the world's 2,596 buildings 200m+ are in China. That is over half.
the numbers & method
| Completions | Share (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| China | 85 | 60.3 |
| United States | 10 | 7.1 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 7.1 |
| India | 6 | 4.3 |
| Canada | 5 | 3.5 |
| Japan | 3 | 2.1 |
| Russia | 3 | 2.1 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 2.1 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1.4 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1.4 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1.4 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1.4 |
Claim types Fact
progrss counted countries from CVU's list of 141 completions in 2025, because the country chart could not be read. Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are counted separately: together they make 90 (64%). Also completed: one each in Australia, Bahrain, Germany, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Singapore and the UAE. The cumulative 1,361 for China is as stated by CVU.
Published 15 Oct 2026
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