Hong Kong 2016: The Facts
Population
Total: 7.3366 million (as at mid-2016)
Hong Kong Island
Kowloon
New Territories
Marine
Age structure (as at mid-2016)
Median age: 43.4
Sex ratio (as at mid-2016)
Overall: 852 males per 1,000 females
Under 15: 1,065
65 and over: 876
Area
Total: 1,106.34 sq km
1.25 million
17.1%
Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands
80.68 sq km
2.24 million
30.6%
Kowloon
46.94 sq km
3.84 million
52.3%
New Territories - mainland
748.18 sq km
< 0.005 million
< 0.05%
New Territories - islands
230.54 sq km
(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.38 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887
Under 15: 11.3% 65 and over: 15.9%
70.19 sq km)
Crude birth rate
8.3 per 1,000 population
Crude death rate
6.4" per 1,000 population
Male: 81.3 years'
Expectation of life at birth
Ethnicity and nationality
Female: 87.3 years*
Predominantly of Chinese ethnicity (as at mid-2016): 92%
Non-PRC nationals physically present in Hong Kong (as at end-
2016): 631,696
Overall density (as at mid-2016)
6,780 people per square kilometre. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 57,530 people per square kilometre.
Housing
About 2.13 million people live in 803,400 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.5 million domestic households, 50% owned the accommodation, 46% were tenants and 4% lived in either rent-free accommodation or accommodation provided by employers.
Religion and custom
Buddhists and Taoists make up the vast majority. Others (estimates):
Largest groups (as at end-2016):
Philippines
184,322
Nepal
22,180
Christians 884,000
Indonesia
168,871
Pakistan
20,797
India
31,989
Canada
16,487
Muslims 300,000
Thailand
27,350
Malaysia
14,976
Hindus 100,000
United States
23,324
United Kingdom
10,967
Sikhs 12,000
Sub-total
521,263
Jews 3,000
Weather
Average annual rainfall
Wettest period
Hourly
Daily
Monthly
Driest
10% humidity (16 January 1959)
Employment
Total in employment": 3.81 million
2,398.5mm
145.5mm (7 June 2008)
534.1mm (19 July 1926)
1,346.1mm (June 2008)
Major employment sectors' Import/export, wholesale and retail trades; and accommodation^ and food services
Public administration; and social and personal services
Financing and insurance; real estate; and professional and business services
Transportation, storage, postal and courier services; and information and communications
Construction
Manufacturing
Unemployment rate
(non-government employees and
Median wage
non-live-in domestic workers)
1,150,800 30% of total in employment
1,020,700 27% of total in employment 769,100 20% of total in employment 425,200
11% of total in employment
330,200 9% of total in employment 97,700 3% of total in employment
3.4%
$16,200 per month (May-June 2016)
# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.
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Highest temperature 36.3°C (8 August 2015) Lowest temperature
0.0°C (18 January 1893)
Highest wind speed (gust)
259km/h at HK Observatory, 284km/h at Tate's Cairn
(Typhoon Wanda, 1 September 1962)
The Economy
Economic growth
Year-on-year rate of change in GDP in real terms: 1.9%′ Inflation affecting consumers
Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 2.4%
Transport
Roads
The 2,107km of public roads carry 745,677 licensed vehicles, or an average of 354 vehicles per kilometre
Bridges
Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span
1,377 metres) and cable-stayed Stonecutters Bridge (main span 1,018 metres)
Air movements
411,530 flights; 70.5 million passengers; 4.52 million tonnes of freight
Shipping movements
27,642 ocean vessel arrivals; 27,181 ocean vessel departures; 257 million tonnes port cargo throughput
Container throughput
19.81 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units
'Accommodation services' refers to hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short-term accommodation.