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Hong Kong 2017: The Facts

Population

Total: 7.3917 million (as at mid-2017)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

Marine

1.25 million

2.26 million

3.89 million

< 0.005 million

Age structure (as at mid-2017)

Area

Total: 1,106.42 sq km

46.94 sq km 748.18 sq km

16.9%

30.5%

Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands Kowloon

80.72 sq km

52.6%

New Territories - mainland

< 0.05%

New Territories - islands

230.58 sq km

(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.42 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887

Median age: 43.9 Under 15: 11.4% 65 and over: 16.4%

Sex ratio (as at mid-2017)

Overall: 848 males per 1,000 females

Under 15: 1,067

Crude birth rate

65 and over: 874

7.7' per 1,000 population

Crude death rate

6.3 per 1,000 population

Expectation of life at birth

Male: 81.7 years*

Ethnicity and nationality

Female: 87.7 years'

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

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

2017): 638,336

Largest groups (as at end-2017):

Overall density (as at mid-2017)

70.27 sq km)

6,830 people per square kilometre. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 59,400 people per square kilometre.

Housing

About 2.14 million people live in 808,300 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.53 million domestic households, 49% owned the accommodation, 47% 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):

Philippines

190,176

Nepal

22,679

Christians 889,000

Indonesia

169,855

Pakistan

21,500

Muslims 300,000

India

32,895

Canada

15,723

Thailand

27,267

Malaysia

15,051

Hindus 100,000

United States

22,226

United Kingdom

10,369

Sikhs 12,000

Sub-total

527,741

Jews 3,000

Weather

Average annual rainfall

2,398.5mm

Wettest period

Hourly

145.5mm (7 June 2008)

Daily

534.1mm (19 July 1926)

Monthly

1,346.1mm (June 2008)

Driest

10% humidity (16 January 1959)

Employment

Total in employment*: 3.83 million

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

Median wage

(non-government

employees and

non-live-in domestic workers)

1,143,400 30% of total in employment 1,023,600 27% of total in employment 784,300 20% of total in employment 428,300

11% of total in employment 339,200 9% of total in employment

95,500 2% of total in employment

3.1%

$16,800 per month (May-June 2017)

# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.

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Highest temperature 36.6°C (22 August 2017) 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: 3.8%" Inflation affecting consumers

Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 1.5%

Transport

Roads

The 2,112km of public roads carry 766,200 licensed vehicles, or an average of 353 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

420,630 flights; 72.9 million passengers; 4.94 million tonnes of freight

Shipping movements

26,793 ocean vessel arrivals; 158,627 river vessel arrivals; 282 million tonnes port cargo throughput

Container throughput

20.77 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units

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

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