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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1988

HK POPULATION HAS INCREASED TO 5.65 MILLION

LAST

YEAR WAS 5,658,800, ACCORDING TO FIGURES (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE ESTIMATED POPULATION OF HONG KONG AT THE

END OF DECEMBER RELEASED TODAY

THIS IS AN INCREASE OF 70,800 PEOPLE OR 1.3 PER CENT END OF 1986.

OVER THE

THE BALANCE OF TOTAL INFLOW OF 27,600 DURING 1987.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

A SHOWED

NET

YEAR. DEATHS TOTALLED 26,900. DEATHS, AMOUNTED

THERE WERE 70,100 BIRTHS LAST NATURAL INCREASE, THAT IS THE SURPLUS OF BIRTHS OVER TO 43,200, AND ACCOUNTED FOR 61 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION GROWTH.

TRADE VALUE STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER AND 1987 RELEASED

TOTAL MERCHANDISE TRADE IN DECEMBER 1987, AT GREW BY 38 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS WHEN COMPARED WITH

TRADE VALUE ACCORDING TO

STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER CENSUS AND OF 1987 RELEASED (THURSDAY).

BY

THE

COMPARED WITH DECEMBER

STATISTICS

DOMESTIC 1986,

$76,723 MILLION, DECEMBER 1986, AND THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT TODAY

IN INCREASED EXPORTS

1987 WHILE BRINGING TOTAL WAS 35 PER CENT

VALUE TERMS BY 23 PER CENT TO $18,850 MILLION IN DECEMBER

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MILLION, $19,055 RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 51 PER CENT EXPORTS IN DECEMBER 1987 TO $37,905 MILLION, WHICH HIGHER THAN IN DECEMBER 1986.

INCREASED IN VALUE

IMPORT'S ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, TERMS BY 41 PER CENT TO $38,818 MILLION IN DECEMBER 1987.

DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO ALL MAJOR MARKETS INCREASED IN VALUE BETWEEN DECEMBER 1986 AND DECEMBER 1987.

TERMS

SUBSTANTIAL

GROWTH WAS

RECORDED

IN

DOMESTIC

EXPORTS TO PER CENT, CHINA BY SINGAPORE BY 78 PER CENT, THE NETHERLANDS BY 48

41 PER 47 PER CENT, FRANCE BY 42 PER CENT, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM BY CENT.

A 6 PER CENT GROWTH WAS RECORDED FOR DOMESTIC EXPORTS KONG'S LARGEST MARKET, THE

U.S.A.

ΤΟ HONG

/BETWEEN DECEMBER