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(i) Chinese Race.
As regards persons of Chinese Race alone, the following are the proportions
of the sexes :-
Hong Kong
Kowloon
New Territories
Afloat
659.34 females per 1,000 males
814.96
716.49
991.02
686.23
742.47
& all over
The following table (16) gives the proportion of females to males in each of the quinquennial groups of age for 1921 and 1931, for persons of Chinese Race. Tables giving full details of Sexes, Ages, and Conjugal Condition for the various races are given as Appendix B to this Report. The preponderance of males over females in the case of Chinese is greatest in the two groups 16--20 and 21-25, (between which ages there is considerable immigration of young men.
The propor- tion rises as the ages increase and, as the mortality of females of adult age is generally below that of males, the proportion reaches equality between the ages 59 and 64, and thereafter there are usually more females than males of corresponding age.
Comparisons of sex proportions withble with those of a settled Western nation. conditions in Hong Kong are not compara other countries are of little value as the
Table 16.
TOTAL POPULATION OF CHINESE RACE IN QUINQUENNIAL GROUPS OF AGES FOR 1981 AND 1921 SHOWING THE PROPORTION OF THE SEXES.
1931.
1921.
Age Groups
Males
Females
Total
Females per 1000 males
Males*
Females*
Total
Females per 1000 males
Years
0-5
43,539
43,695
87,234
1,004
27,296
26,451
53,747
969
6-10
32,436
31,734
64,170
978
23,413
24,736
48,149
11-15
1,056
40,676
34,270
74,946
843
30,151
25,736
55,887
854
16-20
64,665
35,648
100,313
551
50,216
23,242
73,458
463
21-25
63,289
37,410
100,699
591
49,785
22,608
72,393
454
26-30
52,162
36,413
88,575
698
45,303
23,596
68,899
521
31-35
42,870
29,268
72,138
683
37,950
20,080
58,080
529
36-40
36,935
26,579
63,514
720
36,050
19,580
55,630
543
41-45
28,890
20,874
49,264
705
24,231
12,754
36,985
526
46-50
23,976
17,797
41,733
742
19,297
11,801
30,598
586
51-55
16,492
12,266
28,758
744
12,810
7,145
19,455
580
56-60
11,110
10,059
21,169
905
8,268
6,310
14,578
763
61-65
6,538
6,247
12,785
955
4,450
3,773
8,223
848
66-70
3,455
4,032
7,487
1,160
3,792
2,594
6,386
684
71-75
1,584
2,228
3,812
1,406
1,126
1,600
2,726
1,421
76-80
598
1,226
1,824
2,050
463
847
1,310
1,880
81-100 Unknown
266
677
943
2,535
235
485
720
2,064
.1,936
89
2,025
All ages
471,417
350,012
821,429
742
374,336
232,838
607,174
*The figures for each age group have been taken from the several age tables in the 1921 Report. The totals, however, do not agree as the total number of Chinese malos in 1921 was given as 373,676 and females 236,692 with a proportion of 633.42 females per 1000 males.
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