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Hong Kong’s population has dropped for a third straight year, with a net outflow of 60,000 residents contributing to a decline of nearly 1 per cent in 2022.
According to official figures released on Thursday, the city’s population dipped 0.9 per cent from the year before to 7,333,200 in 2022, while births plunged to a record low of 32,500. The overall population drop was deeper than the previous year’s 0.3 per cent decrease.
About 62,100 deaths were recorded last year, outweighing births by 29,600. It was the third consecutive year that there were more deaths than births in Hong Kong, after the city recorded its first ever negative natural population growth in 2020. [More…]
I was watching a show on Australia’s ABC last night, a little outback town near Quilty where people had departed, first in a trickle then in a flood, till just one lady was left, making patisseries for herself and her animals. I wondered “why stay, when everyone is leaving?”. And thought if Hong Kong. We’re not Quilty. But still, got to keep it in mind. You don’t want to be the one turning off the lights as you go out the door.
The optimist on this is that Hong Kong will recover. It’s always recovered. With more from the mainland this time. I’m on that side of it, for now. Not leaving quite yet…
ADDED: Hong Kong’s crude birth rate plunged 63% since 2011. Source. That’s an annual drop of 9.5%.
