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Millions

2.4

2.2

2.0

1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2

1.0

.8

.6

.4

POPULATION

GROWTH OF POPULATION

CESSION OF

KOWLOON

INCLUDING NEW TERRITORIES

OCCUPATION PERIOD

.2

.0

40 1850 60 70 80 90 1900 10 20 30 40 1950

in the next decade may well reach 800,000. Registered births in 1954 totalled 83,317 and deaths 19,283 and at the end of the year the population was probably about 2 millions.

The Chinese population is predominantly of Cantonese origin, but economic and political changes on the mainland in recent years have brought to the Colony large numbers of people from other parts of China,

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