Hong Kong 2020: The Facts
Population
Total: 7.4818 million (as at mid-2020)
Hong Kong Island
Kowloon
New Territories
Marine
1.22 million
2.3 million
3.95 million
< 0.005 million
Age structure (as at mid-2020)
Area
Total: 1,110.18 sq km
16.4%
30.8%
Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands Kowloon
80.72 sq km
46.95 sq km
52.8%
New Territories mainland
-
< 0.05%
New Territories - islands
Median age: 45 Under 15: 11.6% 65 and over: 18.3%
Sex ratio (as at mid-2020)
Overall: 840 males per 1,000 females
Under 15: 1,055
Crude birth rate
65 and over: 881
5.8" per 1,000 population
Crude death rate
6.7" per 1,000 population
Male: 82.7 years*
Race and nationality
Expectation of life at birth
Female: 88.1 years#
Predominantly of Chinese race (as at mid-2016): 92%
Non-PRC nationals physically present in Hong Kong (as at end-2020): 729,176
Largest groups (as at end-2020):
(Lantau 147.51 sq km; others 86.76 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887
Overall density (as at mid-2020)
748.24 sq km
234.27 sq km
74.03 sq km)
6,890 people per sq km. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 61,410 people per sq km.
Housing
About 2.21 million people live in 842,200 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.65 million domestic households, 51% owned the accommodation, 45% 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):
Christians 1,200,000
Philippines
225,338
Nepal
24,893
Indonesia
173,489
Pakistan
23,544
India
40,856
United Kingdom
19,580
Muslims
300,000
Thailand
28,321
Malaysia
16,965
Hindus 100,000
United States
25,460
Canada
16,628
Sikhs
Sub-total
595,074
Jews
12,000 3,000
Weather
Average annual rainfall
Wettest period
Hourly
Daily
Monthly
Driest
10% humidity (16 January 1959)
Employment
2,398.5mm
145.5mm (7 June 2008) 534.1mm (19 July 1926) 1,346.1mm (June 2008)
Total in employment#: 3.65 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
955,800 26% of total in employment 1,069,000 29% of total in employment 825,000 23% of total in employment 396,700
11% of total in employment
306,400 8% of total in employment 82,800 2% of total in employment
5.8%
Manufacturing
Unemployment rate
Median wage
non-live-in domestic workers)
# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.
A
(non-government employees and
$18,400 per month (May-June 2020)
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: -6.1%# Inflation affecting consumers
Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 0.3%
Transport
Roads
The 2,150km of public roads carry 802,698 licensed vehicles, or an average of 373 vehicles per km
Bridges
Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span 1,377m) and cable-stayed Stonecutters Bridge (main span 1,018m)
Air movements
160,655 flights; 8.8 million passengers; 4.5 million tonnes of cargo*
Shipping movements
22,001 ocean vessel arrivals; 65,830 river vessel arrivals; 249 million tonnes of port cargo throughput
Container throughput
17.97 million twenty-foot equivalent units
*Including airmail
'Accommodation services' refers to hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short-term accommodation.