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Hong Kong 2018: The Facts

Population

Total: 7.451 million (as at mid-2018)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

Marine

1.25 million

Area

Total: 1,106.66 sq km

16.8%

Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands

80.72 sq km

2.27 million

30.4%

Kowloon

46.94 sq km

3.93 million

52.8%

New Territories - mainland

748.23 sq km

< 0.005 million

< 0.05%

New Territories - islands

230.77 sq km

Age structure (as at mid-2018)

(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.61 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887

Median age: 44.2 Under 15: 11.6%

65 and over: 17%

70.51 sq km)

Sex ratio (as at mid-2018)

Overall: 844 males per 1,000 females

Under 15: 1,066

Crude birth rate

65 and over: 874

7.2o per 1,000 population

Crude death rate

6.3′ per 1,000 population

Male: 82.2 years'

Expectation of life at birth

Ethnicity and nationality

Female: 87.6 years'

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

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

2018): 650,858

Overall density (as at mid-2018)

6,880 people per square kilometre. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 60,560 people per square kilometre.

Housing

About 2.18 million people live in 825,200 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.57 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):

Largest groups (as at end-2018):

Philippines

196,546

Nepal

22,938

Christians 1,200,000

Indonesia

174,105

Pakistan

22,089

Muslims

India

34,217

Canada

300,000

15,207

Thailand

27,279

Malaysia

15,404

Hindus

100,000

United States

20,758

United Kingdom

11,326

Sikhs

12,000

Sub-total

539,869

Jews

3,000

Weather

Average annual rainfall

2,398.5mm

Wettest period

Hourly

145.5mm (7 June 2008)

Daily

534.1mm (19 July 1926)

1,346.1mm (June 2008)

Monthly

Driest

10% humidity (16 January 1959)

Employment

Total in employment': 3.87 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

1,147,300 30% of total in employment 1,046,100 27% of total in employment 801,100 21% of total in employment 424,800 11% of total in employment 342,900 9% of total in employment

91,900 2% of total in employment

2.8%

$17,500 per month (May-June 2018)

Unemployment rate

Median wage

(non-government

employees and

#

Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.

A

non-live-in domestic workers)

*

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: 3.0%* Inflation affecting consumers

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

Transport

Roads

The 2,123km of public roads carry 784,434 licensed vehicles, or an average of 369 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'

427,766 flights; 74.7 million passengers; 5.1 million tonnes of cargo

Shipping movements

25,410 ocean vessel arrivals; 149,200 river vessel arrivals; 259 million tonnes port cargo throughput

Container throughput

19.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units

Including airmail

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