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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.

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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