Selected Service Sectors
TELECOM
NICATIONS
No. of working telephone lines (thousands) No. of faxlines (thousands)
Telex traffic: international (thousand min.)
Telex traffic: internal (thousand min.)
Total International telephone traffic (thousand min.)
Telephone exchange lines per 1000 population
(as at end of Mar 1993)
FINANCE
No. of licensed banks
No. of restricted licensed banks No. of deposit taking companies
Money Supply M1 (HKDM)
Money Supply M2 (HKDM)
Money Supply M3 (HKDM)
Total deposits of banks & DTCs (HKDM)
Stock Exchange
Hang Seng Index (end of year)
Total turnover (HKDM)
April 1993
2,834
201
April 92 - March 93
49,938
21,506
2,146,024
636
April 1993
164
55
143
164,218
1,631,139
1,677,294
1,601,472
1982
1992
784 5,512
46,230 700,578
1990
1991
1992
TOURISM
6,581
6,795 8,011
Total visitor arrivals (thousands) f
2,043
2,046 2,233
HK residents travelling overseas 8
(thousands)
Notes
a Revised (August 93) estimates
b Revised estimate
c Total public expenditure on fiscal year basis while total expenditure on GDP
is on calendar year basis.
d Under present GATT classification, construction is part of the service sector. e Community, social and personal services, plus ownership of premises, less
imputed bank service charge
f Include visitors, transients and seamen from the People's Republic of China
holding PRC passports, two-way permits or seamen books, etc.
g Exclude visits to Macau & the PRC.