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Hong Kong 2020: The Facts

Population

Total: 7.4818 million (as at mid-2020)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

Marine

1.22 million

2.3 million

3.95 million

< 0.005 million

Age structure (as at mid-2020)

Area

Total: 1,110.18 sq km

16.4%

30.8%

Hong Kong Island & adjacent islands Kowloon

80.72 sq km

46.95 sq km

52.8%

New Territories mainland

-

< 0.05%

New Territories - islands

Median age: 45 Under 15: 11.6% 65 and over: 18.3%

Sex ratio (as at mid-2020)

Overall: 840 males per 1,000 females

Under 15: 1,055

Crude birth rate

65 and over: 881

5.8" per 1,000 population

Crude death rate

6.7" per 1,000 population

Male: 82.7 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-2020): 729,176

Largest groups (as at end-2020):

(Lantau 147.51 sq km; others 86.76 sq km) (Reclamation since 1887

Overall density (as at mid-2020)

748.24 sq km

234.27 sq km

74.03 sq km)

6,890 people per sq km. The most densely populated District Council district is Kwun Tong, with a density of 61,410 people per sq km.

Housing

About 2.21 million people live in 842,200 public rental housing units under the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Of Hong Kong's 2.65 million domestic households, 51% owned the accommodation, 45% 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):

Christians 1,200,000

Philippines

225,338

Nepal

24,893

Indonesia

173,489

Pakistan

23,544

India

40,856

United Kingdom

19,580

Muslims

300,000

Thailand

28,321

Malaysia

16,965

Hindus 100,000

United States

25,460

Canada

16,628

Sikhs

Sub-total

595,074

Jews

12,000 3,000

Weather

Average annual rainfall

Wettest period

Hourly

Daily

Monthly

Driest

10% humidity (16 January 1959)

Employment

2,398.5mm

145.5mm (7 June 2008) 534.1mm (19 July 1926) 1,346.1mm (June 2008)

Total in employment#: 3.65 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

955,800 26% of total in employment 1,069,000 29% of total in employment 825,000 23% of total in employment 396,700

11% of total in employment

306,400 8% of total in employment 82,800 2% of total in employment

5.8%

Manufacturing

Unemployment rate

Median wage

non-live-in domestic workers)

# Provisional figures, or figures subject to revision.

A

(non-government employees and

$18,400 per month (May-June 2020)

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: -6.1%# Inflation affecting consumers

Year-on-year rate of change in Composite CPI: 0.3%

Transport

Roads

The 2,150km of public roads carry 802,698 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

160,655 flights; 8.8 million passengers; 4.5 million tonnes of cargo*

Shipping movements

22,001 ocean vessel arrivals; 65,830 river vessel arrivals; 249 million tonnes of port cargo throughput

Container throughput

17.97 million twenty-foot equivalent units

*Including airmail

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