THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1981
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5 108 000 PEOPLE HERE, PROVISIONAL FIGURES SHOW
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PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF THE 1981 POPULATION CENSUS RELEASED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT YESTERDAY SHOWED AN ENUMERATED POPULATION OF 5 022 000 ON MARCH 9, 1981.
THIS FIGURE INCLUDES 14 000 TRANSIENTS AND 20 000 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES, BUT EXCLUDES 120 000 RESIDENTS WHO WERE AWAY FROM HONG KONG ON THE REFERENCE DATE.
TAKING THESE INTO ACCOUNT, THE TOTAL RESIDENT POPULATION OF HONG KONG BECOMES 5 108 000.
THE MARCH 1981 HEADCOUNT REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 1 074 000 PEOPLE OR 27.2 PER CENT OVER THE 1971 CENSUS COUNT, GIVING AN AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH RATE OF 2.4 PER CENT.
IT WAS FOUND IN THE CENSUS THAT THERE WERE 1 090 MALES TO EVERY 1 000 FEMALES- THE SEX RATIO FOR 1971 WAS 1 033 MALES PER 1 000 FEMALES. THE INCREASE IN THE PROPORTION OF MALES OVER FEMALES DURING THIS PERIOD IS A RESULT OF THE LARGE INFLUX OF ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS, WHO WERE PREDOMINANTLY YOUNG AND MALE.
A BROAD GEOGRAPHICAL BREAKDOWN OF THE POPULATION, WITH THE 1971 CENSUS RESULTS FOR COMPARISON, IS AS FOLLOWS:
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1981 CENSUS
ENUMERATED POPULATION *
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1971 CENSUS
CENSUS ARE A
ENUMERATED POPULATION *
%
HONG KONG ISLAND
996 000
25.2
1 183 000
23.6
KOWLOON
716 000
18.1
799 000
15.9
NEW KOWLOON
1 469 000
37.3
1 652 000
33.0
TSUEN WAN
276 000
7.0
608 000
12.1
YUEN LONG AND TUEN MUN
175 000
4.4
308 000
6.1
TAI PO AND FANL ING
132 000
3.3
183 000
3.6
SHA TIN
29 000
0.7
117 000
2.3
SAI KUNG SOUTH AND
HANG HAU
26 000
0.7
42 000
0.8
ISLANDS
38 000
1.0
46 000
0.9
MARINE
80 000
2.0
50 000
1.0
TRANSIENTS
11 000
0.3
14 000
0.3
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
20 000
0.4
TOTAL
3 948 300
100.0
5 022 000
100.0
* FIGURES ARE ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST THOUSAND.
FROM 1971 TO 1981, THE INCREASE IN POPULATION OF THE NEW TERRITORIES, PARTICULARLY THE NEW TOWNS, AND TOWNSHIPS, WAS ESPECIALLY SUBSTANTIAL. INDEED, TSUEN WAN HAS RECORDED THE LARGEST ABSOLUTE INCREASE OF 332 000 PEOPLE IN THE PAST DECADE, AND SHA TIN HAS RECORDED A THREEFOLD INCREASE. AS A RESULT, THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES ROSE FROM 17 PER CENT IN 1971 TO 26 PER CENT IN 1981.
/THE MARINE
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