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Social Indicators
(a)
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Free education for every child for 9 years.
Attendance until age 15 or completion of Form 3 is
compulsory
(b)
A public medical service with nominal charges.
(c)
An infant mortality rate of 7.5 per thousand, which
is amongst the lowest in the world.
(d) Life expectancies of 79 for females (UK : 76; USA :
78) and 74 for males (UK : 70; USA: 71) which are
amongst the longest in the world.
(e) Nearly half of the people of Hong Kong live in highly
subsidized public housing; every year more than
40,000 new flats are being provided through the
public housing programme, 30,000 rental and more than
10,000 for sale.
(f)
Government is undertaking a re-development programme
of its older public housing estates, rehousing more
than 6,000 people into better public housing every
year.