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Hong Kong 2016: The Facts

Population

Total: 7.3366 million (as at mid-2016)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

Marine

Age structure (as at mid-2016)

Median age: 43.4

Sex ratio (as at mid-2016)

Overall: 852 males per 1,000 females

Under 15: 1,065

65 and over: 876

Area

Total: 1,106.34 sq km

1.25 million

17.1%

Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands

80.68 sq km

2.24 million

30.6%

Kowloon

46.94 sq km

3.84 million

52.3%

New Territories - mainland

748.18 sq km

< 0.005 million

< 0.05%

New Territories - islands

230.54 sq km

(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.38 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887

Under 15: 11.3% 65 and over: 15.9%

70.19 sq km)

Crude birth rate

8.3 per 1,000 population

Crude death rate

6.4" per 1,000 population

Male: 81.3 years'

Expectation of life at birth

Ethnicity and nationality

Female: 87.3 years*

Predominantly of Chinese ethnicity (as at mid-2016): 92%

Non-PRC nationals physically present in Hong Kong (as at end-

2016): 631,696

Overall density (as at mid-2016)

6,780 people per square kilometre. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 57,530 people per square kilometre.

Housing

About 2.13 million people live in 803,400 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.5 million domestic households, 50% owned the accommodation, 46% were tenants and 4% lived in either rent-free accommodation or accommodation provided by employers.

Religion and custom

Buddhists and Taoists make up the vast majority. Others (estimates):

Largest groups (as at end-2016):

Philippines

184,322

Nepal

22,180

Christians 884,000

Indonesia

168,871

Pakistan

20,797

India

31,989

Canada

16,487

Muslims 300,000

Thailand

27,350

Malaysia

14,976

Hindus 100,000

United States

23,324

United Kingdom

10,967

Sikhs 12,000

Sub-total

521,263

Jews 3,000

Weather

Average annual rainfall

Wettest period

Hourly

Daily

Monthly

Driest

10% humidity (16 January 1959)

Employment

Total in employment": 3.81 million

2,398.5mm

145.5mm (7 June 2008)

534.1mm (19 July 1926)

1,346.1mm (June 2008)

Major employment sectors' Import/export, wholesale and retail trades; and accommodation^ and food services

Public administration; and social and personal services

Financing and insurance; real estate; and professional and business services

Transportation, storage, postal and courier services; and information and communications

Construction

Manufacturing

Unemployment rate

(non-government employees and

Median wage

non-live-in domestic workers)

1,150,800 30% of total in employment

1,020,700 27% of total in employment 769,100 20% of total in employment 425,200

11% of total in employment

330,200 9% of total in employment 97,700 3% of total in employment

3.4%

$16,200 per month (May-June 2016)

# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.

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Highest temperature 36.3°C (8 August 2015) Lowest temperature

0.0°C (18 January 1893)

Highest wind speed (gust)

259km/h at HK Observatory, 284km/h at Tate's Cairn

(Typhoon Wanda, 1 September 1962)

The Economy

Economic growth

Year-on-year rate of change in GDP in real terms: 1.9%′ Inflation affecting consumers

Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 2.4%

Transport

Roads

The 2,107km of public roads carry 745,677 licensed vehicles, or an average of 354 vehicles per kilometre

Bridges

Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span

1,377 metres) and cable-stayed Stonecutters Bridge (main span 1,018 metres)

Air movements

411,530 flights; 70.5 million passengers; 4.52 million tonnes of freight

Shipping movements

27,642 ocean vessel arrivals; 27,181 ocean vessel departures; 257 million tonnes port cargo throughput

Container throughput

19.81 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units

'Accommodation services' refers to hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short-term accommodation.