Shanghai Disneyland theme park attendance in China 2016-2022

The Shanghai Disneyland park is a feature of the Shanghai Disney Resort set up in Pudong, China, in 2011. Much like its other counterparts within the Disneyland global franchise, the Shanghai Disneyland park is a major attraction in China, having hosted about 5.3 million visitors in 2022.

China's best-known theme parks

Amusement in China comes in big sizes. One of the largest amusement parks in China since 2015 is the OCT East park in Shenzhen, spread over 13.5 thousand mu (over two thousand acres) of land. The Shanghai Disneyland park is a joint venture between the Shanghai Shendi Group and The Walt Disney Company, while smaller in scale, the park had the most expensive entry ticket among China's prominent theme parks as of 2015, charging 370 yuan per head.

Amusement and recreation around the world

In terms of attendance the Shanghai Disneyland park ranked fourth in the Asia Pacific region after Japan's Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo Disney Sea, and Universal Studios parks in 2018. As of 2019, the most visited theme park in the world was the Magic Kingdom (Walt Disney World) in the United States with a footfall of nearly 21 million.