Hong Kong 2017: The Facts
Population
Total: 7.3917 million (as at mid-2017)
Hong Kong Island
Kowloon
New Territories
Marine
1.25 million
2.26 million
3.89 million
< 0.005 million
Age structure (as at mid-2017)
Area
Total: 1,106.42 sq km
46.94 sq km 748.18 sq km
16.9%
30.5%
Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands Kowloon
80.72 sq km
52.6%
New Territories - mainland
< 0.05%
New Territories - islands
230.58 sq km
(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.42 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887
Median age: 43.9 Under 15: 11.4% 65 and over: 16.4%
Sex ratio (as at mid-2017)
Overall: 848 males per 1,000 females
Under 15: 1,067
Crude birth rate
65 and over: 874
7.7' per 1,000 population
Crude death rate
6.3 per 1,000 population
Expectation of life at birth
Male: 81.7 years*
Ethnicity and nationality
Female: 87.7 years'
Predominantly of Chinese ethnicity (as at mid-2016): 92%
Non-PRC nationals physically present in Hong Kong (as at end-
2017): 638,336
Largest groups (as at end-2017):
Overall density (as at mid-2017)
70.27 sq km)
6,830 people per square kilometre. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 59,400 people per square kilometre.
Housing
About 2.14 million people live in 808,300 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.53 million domestic households, 49% owned the accommodation, 47% 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):
Philippines
190,176
Nepal
22,679
Christians 889,000
Indonesia
169,855
Pakistan
21,500
Muslims 300,000
India
32,895
Canada
15,723
Thailand
27,267
Malaysia
15,051
Hindus 100,000
United States
22,226
United Kingdom
10,369
Sikhs 12,000
Sub-total
527,741
Jews 3,000
Weather
Average annual rainfall
2,398.5mm
Wettest period
Hourly
145.5mm (7 June 2008)
Daily
534.1mm (19 July 1926)
Monthly
1,346.1mm (June 2008)
Driest
10% humidity (16 January 1959)
Employment
Total in employment*: 3.83 million
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
Median wage
(non-government
employees and
non-live-in domestic workers)
1,143,400 30% of total in employment 1,023,600 27% of total in employment 784,300 20% of total in employment 428,300
11% of total in employment 339,200 9% of total in employment
95,500 2% of total in employment
3.1%
$16,800 per month (May-June 2017)
# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.
^
Highest temperature 36.6°C (22 August 2017) 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: 3.8%" Inflation affecting consumers
Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 1.5%
Transport
Roads
The 2,112km of public roads carry 766,200 licensed vehicles, or an average of 353 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
420,630 flights; 72.9 million passengers; 4.94 million tonnes of freight
Shipping movements
26,793 ocean vessel arrivals; 158,627 river vessel arrivals; 282 million tonnes port cargo throughput
Container throughput
20.77 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units
'Accommodation services' refers to hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short-term accommodation.
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