MONDAY, MAY 6, 1991
10
PRELIMINARY HEAD COUNT OF 1991 POPULATION CENSUS
TOTAL OF 5,785,000 THE 1991 POPULATION CENSUS ENUMERATED A PERSONS IN HONG KONG, THE COMMISSIONER FOR CENSUS AND STATISTICS, MR PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF BENJAMIN MOK, TODAY (MONDAY) ANNOUNCED THE THE CENSUS WHICH WAS CONDUCTED DURING THE PERIOD MARCH 15 TO 24, 1991.
"THIS
PRELIMINARY
HEAD
COUNT
COMPRISES
5,698,000 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS. RESIDENTS, 35,000 TRANSIENTS AND 52,000 RESIDENT POPULATION OF 5,698,000 INCLUDES 146,000 LOCAL RESIDENTS CENSUS, WERE TEMPORARILY AWAY FROM HONG KONG AT THE TIME OF THE SAID.
"DE
LOCAL
THE
WHO
HE
BY
IN THE AWAY
THE "DE FACTO" POPULATION ON MARCH 15, 1991 WAS 5,639,000.
PRESENT PERSONS REFERS TO ALL FACTO"
IT POPULATION, TERRITORY ON THAT DATE, HENCE THOSE LOCAL RESIDENTS TEMPORARILY FROM HONG KONG ARE NOT INCLUDED.
COMPARED
WITH THE
1981
CENSUS,
THE
RESIDENT POPULATION
PER 11.5
CENT OVER THE DECADE. THE INCREASED BY 588,000, OR POPULATION GREW AT A SLOWER PACE DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE DECADE. THE ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGED 0.7 PER CENT OVER THE PERIOD 1986-91, COMPARED WITH AN AVERAGE RATE OF 1.5 PER CENT OVER THE PERIOD 1981-86.
SUBSTANTIAL
THE 1991 POPULATION CENSUS SHOWED THAT THERE WAS A RE-DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION FROM THE OLDER DISTRICTS TO THE TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES DURING THE PAST DECADE.
POPULATION
IN THE
NEW TERRITORIES THE RESIDENT MARKEDLY FROM 1.3 MILLION IN 1981 TO 2.4 MILLION IN 1991. TERRITORIES HAD A 42 PER CENT SHARE OF THE TOTAL RESIDENT IN 1991, COMPARED WITH 26 PER CENT 10 YEARS AGO.
NEW
INCREASED THE NEW POPULATION
FROM 2.5 TOTAL 36
IN KOWLOON AND NEW KOWLOON, THE POPULATION DROPPED
IN TERMS OF SHARE OF THE MILLION TO 2.0 MILLION IN THE DECADE. RESIDENT POPULATION, IT REPRESENTED A DECREASE FROM 49 PER CENT TO PER CENT.
OVER
SIGNIFICANT CHANGE, POPULATION ON HONG KONG ISLAND SHOWED NO WITH ONLY A MODERATE INCREASE FROM 1.22 MILLION TO 1.26 MILLION THE DECADE. ITS SHARE OF THE TOTAL RESIDENT POPULATION IN 1991 WAS 22 PER CENT.
THE
1986
RESIDENT POPULATION IN EACH DISTRICT BOARD COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING RESULTS OF THE GIVEN IN A SEPARATE TABLE.
DISTRICT, AS BY-CENSUS,
IS
/THE RE-DISTRIBUTION