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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1994
POPULATION TREND UNDER STUDY
FOLLOWING IS A QUESTION BY THE HON JIMMY MCGREGOR AND A WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES, MR MICHAEL CARTLAND, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY):
QUESTION IN VIEW OF THE RECENT DRAMATIC INCREASE IN THE
TERRITORY'S LAST YEAR), WILL THE POPULATION GOVERNMENT INFORM THIS COUNCIL WHETHER IT WILL:
142,000 PEOPLE (SOME
(A) CONSIDER
THE INCREASE, MAKING A THOROUGH STUDY OF INCLUDING WHETHER IT IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE; THE MAKEUP PEOPLE OF THE INFLUX AND THE DEMANDS THESE ADDITIONAL WILL MAKE UPON THE TERRITORY'S SCARCE RESOURCES; AND
(B)
PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH A STUDY?
ANSWER:
ESTIMATED
TO BE 6.061
MID-1993. OF I.E. BIRTHS LESS
THE POPULATION AS AT MID-1994 WAS MILLION, WHICH REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 142,400 PERSONS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATED POPULATION OF 5.919 MILLION AS AT THIS INCREASE, 42, 400 WAS DUE TO NATURAL INCREASE, DEATHS, WHILE THE REMAINING 100,000 WAS DUE TO NET BALANCE OF ARRIVALS OVER DEPARTURES DURING THE PERIOD.
IN
MID-
THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS FOR THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE THE NET BALANCE OF ARRIVALS OVER DEPARTURES BETWEEN MID-1993 AND
RESIDENTS AND INCREASED 1994 WERE REDUCED EMIGRATION OF HONG KONG INFLOW OF RETURNED EMIGRANTS.
SPECIFICALLY, IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECENT POPULATION TRENDS AND
HAVE RECORDED
BREN THE INCREASES IN VIEW
THAT OF THE FACT
THE GOVERNMENT IS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY PROJECTED,
THE ALREADY STUDYING THE SITUATION IN DETAIL LEADING TO AN UPDATE OF POPULATION PROJECTIONS. THE UPDATED POPULATION PROJECTIONS PUBLISHED IN A REPORT BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
WILL BE
ARE AVAILABLE,
BE
RESOURCE
AS SOON AS THE UPDATED POPULATION PROJECTIONS THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PROGRAMMES IN THE VARIOUS POLICY AREAS WILL
AND BY THE BRANCHES
DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED. EXAMINED IMPLICATIONS WILL ALSO BE EXAMINED AT THE SAME TIME.
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