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Hong Kong 2019: The Facts

Population

Total: 7.5074 million (as at mid-2019)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

1.25 million

2.3 million

Area

Total: 1,106.81 sq km

16.6%

Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands

80.72 sq km

30.6%

Kowloon

46.94 sq km

3.96 million

52.8%

New Territories - mainland

748.23 sq km

Marine

< 0.005 million

< 0.05%

New Territories - islands

230.92 sq km

Age structure (as at mid-2019)

(Lantau 147.16 sq km; others 83.76 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887

70.66 sq km)

Median age: 44.6 Under 15: 11.7%

65 and over: 17.6%

Sex ratio (as at mid-2019)

Overall: 838 males per 1,000 females

Under 15: 1,063

65 and over: 873

Crude birth rate

7* per 1,000 population

Crude death rate

6.5" per 1,000 population

Male: 82.3 years*

Race and nationality

Expectation of life at birth

Female: 88.1 years"

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

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

end-2019): 652,896

Overall density (as at mid-2019)

6,930 people per sq km. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 61,560 people per sq km.

Housing

About 2.2 million people live in 834,600 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.61 million domestic households, 50% 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-2019):

Philippines

200,925

Pakistan

22,445

Christians 1,200,000

Indonesia

177,530

United States

19,444

Muslims

India

35,012

Malaysia

300,000

15,241

Thailand

27,171

Canada

13,375

Hindus

100,000

Nepal

23,337

United Kingdom

8,848

Sikhs

12,000

Sub-total

543,328

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': 3.85 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

1,092,200 28% of total in employment 1,080,400 28% of total in employment 820,100 21% of total in employment 421,700 11% of total in employment 330,100 9% of total in employment 88,100

2% of total in employment 2.9%

$18,200 per month (May-June 2019)

Unemployment rate

Median wage

(non-government

employees and

#

Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.

Λ

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: -1.2%*

Inflation affecting consumers

Year-on-year rate of change in composite CPI: 2.9%

Transport

Roads

The 2,127km of public roads carry 794,366 licensed vehicles, or an average of 373 vehicles per km

Bridges

Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span 1,377m) and cable-stayed Stonecutters Bridge (main span 1,018m) Air movements*

419,795 flights; 71.5 million passengers; 4.8 million tonnes of cargo*

Shipping movements

25,388 ocean vessel arrivals; 135,864 river vessel arrivals; 263 million tonnes of port cargo throughput

Container throughput

18.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units

Including airmail

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