AnnualReport-1914

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population for the year 1914 and from this it will be seen that the total Non-Chinese population—inclusive of Army and Navy—amounted to 20,710 (including 420 Malays and Filipinos). The total Chinese population including 47 Chinese Sappers and 175 Chinese servants employed in Naval Establishments equals 480,594 of whom 90,594 reside in the New Territories exclusive of New Kowloon.

The distribution of population at the Census was as follows :-

Non-Chinese Civil Community, 12,075 Chinese Civil Population :-- City of Victoria (including Peak) 219,386 Villages of Hongkong, 16,211 Kowloon (including New Kowloon), 67,497 New Territories (land) 80,622 Population afloat, 60,948 Total Chinese Civil Population,... 444,664 Total Civil Population, 456,739

The estimated total population of the Colony at the middle of 1914 is 501,304, but the figures given below in respect to births and deaths relate only to Hongkong and Kowloon (including New Kowloon), and the rates therefore in respect to these data are calculated on an estimated Chinese population of 390,000 and a Non-Chinese population of 20,710 of whom 13,000 were civilians, the remainder belonging to the Naval and Military services.

The Civil population consists chiefly of male adults. At the Census held in 1911 the proportion of males was 64.8 per cent of the total Civil population; at the Census taken in 1906 the proportion was 70.1 per cent. and at the 1901 Census the proportion was 72.6 per cent., so that there was a steady increase in the proportion of females (which means an increase in family life) during these ten years. Over half the Civil population (52.9 per cent of the Chinese and 55.7 per cent of the Non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 45 years.

The Chinese boat population (exclusive of the New Territories) as given in the Census taken in 1911 was 45,302 while the estimate to the middle of 1914 is 49,200. The number of boats belonging to the Port and the villages of Hongkong is as follows:-

Passenger boats, 1,138 Cargo boats, 1,468 Steam-launches,... 343 Lighters, 180 Harbour boats, 4,554 Fishing boats, 1,431 Trading junks,.. 2,796 Total,... 11,910