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(i) Chinese Race.

As regards persons of Chinese Race alone, the following are the proportions

of the sexes :-

Hong Kong

Kowloon

New Territories

Afloat

659.34 females per 1,000 males

814.96

716.49

991.02

686.23

742.47

& all over

The following table (16) gives the proportion of females to males in each of the quinquennial groups of age for 1921 and 1931, for persons of Chinese Race. Tables giving full details of Sexes, Ages, and Conjugal Condition for the various races are given as Appendix B to this Report. The preponderance of males over females in the case of Chinese is greatest in the two groups 16--20 and 21-25, (between which ages there is considerable immigration of young men.

The propor- tion rises as the ages increase and, as the mortality of females of adult age is generally below that of males, the proportion reaches equality between the ages 59 and 64, and thereafter there are usually more females than males of corresponding age.

Comparisons of sex proportions withble with those of a settled Western nation. conditions in Hong Kong are not compara other countries are of little value as the

Table 16.

TOTAL POPULATION OF CHINESE RACE IN QUINQUENNIAL GROUPS OF AGES FOR 1981 AND 1921 SHOWING THE PROPORTION OF THE SEXES.

1931.

1921.

Age Groups

Males

Females

Total

Females per 1000 males

Males*

Females*

Total

Females per 1000 males

Years

0-5

43,539

43,695

87,234

1,004

27,296

26,451

53,747

969

6-10

32,436

31,734

64,170

978

23,413

24,736

48,149

11-15

1,056

40,676

34,270

74,946

843

30,151

25,736

55,887

854

16-20

64,665

35,648

100,313

551

50,216

23,242

73,458

463

21-25

63,289

37,410

100,699

591

49,785

22,608

72,393

454

26-30

52,162

36,413

88,575

698

45,303

23,596

68,899

521

31-35

42,870

29,268

72,138

683

37,950

20,080

58,080

529

36-40

36,935

26,579

63,514

720

36,050

19,580

55,630

543

41-45

28,890

20,874

49,264

705

24,231

12,754

36,985

526

46-50

23,976

17,797

41,733

742

19,297

11,801

30,598

586

51-55

16,492

12,266

28,758

744

12,810

7,145

19,455

580

56-60

11,110

10,059

21,169

905

8,268

6,310

14,578

763

61-65

6,538

6,247

12,785

955

4,450

3,773

8,223

848

66-70

3,455

4,032

7,487

1,160

3,792

2,594

6,386

684

71-75

1,584

2,228

3,812

1,406

1,126

1,600

2,726

1,421

76-80

598

1,226

1,824

2,050

463

847

1,310

1,880

81-100 Unknown

266

677

943

2,535

235

485

720

2,064

.1,936

89

2,025

All ages

471,417

350,012

821,429

742

374,336

232,838

607,174

*The figures for each age group have been taken from the several age tables in the 1921 Report. The totals, however, do not agree as the total number of Chinese malos in 1921 was given as 373,676 and females 236,692 with a proportion of 633.42 females per 1000 males.

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