23-1   Summary of Key Statistics
Item	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Population and Vital Events
Mid-year Population (10 000 persons)	648.9	654.4	660.7	666.5	672.5
Crude Birth Rate                (‰)	9.1	8.1	7.8	8.1	7.2
Crude Death Rate                (‰)	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.1	5.0
Labour
Labour Force        (10 000 persons)	323.5	327.6	332.0	337.4	342.7
Labour Force Participation Rate  (%)	61.3	61.3	61.3	61.4	61.4
Unemployment Rate                (%)	2.2	4.7	6.2	4.9	5.1
Underemployment Rate             (%)	1.1	2.5	2.9	2.8	2.5
Number of Employed Persons in Selected
Industries               (person)
(i) Manufacturing	443000	379600	353900	333700	326400
(ii) Construction	303100	306600	286800	301700	291400
(iii) Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export
Trades, Restaurants and Hotels	960800	953500	935100	981700	981100
(iv) Transport, Storage and	343400	349200	339400	356600	353400
Communications
(v)  Financing, Insurance, Real
Estate and Business Services	405100	410300	437700	452700	478100
(vi) Community, Social and Personal	678200	695600	732900	754700	798900
Services
Real Wage Index
(September 1992=100)	104.5	104.4	109.0	112.8	114.6
External Trade
Imports                (HKD 100 million)	16150.9	14290.9	13927.2	16579.6	15681.9
Domestic Exports       (HKD 100 million)	2114.1	1884.5	1706.0	1809.7	1535.2
Re-exports             (HKD 100 million)	12445.4	11592.0	11784.0	13917.2	13274.7
Terms of Trade Index(2000=100)(13)	100.5	101.7	101.0	100.0	100.9
Industrial Production
Index of Industrial Production(1986=100)	120.6	110.1	103.1	102.5	98.0
Industrial Electricity Consumption	18965	18489	17547	17769	16759
(terajoules)
Industrial Gas Consumption (terajoules)	911	888	914	982	1011
Distributive Trades, Transport Services
and Other Services
Value Added            (HKD 100 million)
Wholesale	158	131	138	125
Retail	384	264	271	288
Import/Export	2328	2065	1986	2254
Transport and Related Services	716	738	803	880
Storage, Communications, Financing
(Except Banking) and Business Services	1008	846	863	995
Land, Building and Construction
Gross Value of  Construction Work in	1315	1333	1264	1221	1140
Nominal Terms            (HKD 100 million)
Private Residential Flats with
Consent to Commence Work    (number)	40962	33843	44323	31366	27274
Consideration of Documents Received
for Registration in the Land Registry
(HKD 100 million)
Agreements for Sale and Purchase of	9378	3646	2870	2430	2095
Building Units and Land
Assignments of Building Units	7904	3484	3001	2730	2435
Assignments of Land	938	243	357	199	230
Housing
Housing Authority Rental Flats  Newly
Completed①                (number)	17917	9759	31806	47552	33629
Home Ownership Scheme Residential Flats
Newly Completed①②       (number)	12040	3320	13778	23542	5080
Transport, Communications and Tourism
Inward/Outward Movement of Goods	8543130	8543123	8874750	9379793	9128786
Vehicle            (vehicle)
Inward and Outward Movements of Cargo
Total Discharged (10 000 tons)	12722	12641	12794	13035	13249
Total Loaded    (10 000 tons)	8091	7900	8175	8692	8605
Container Throughput ③	1457	1458	1621	1810	1783
(10 000 TEUs)	(1439)
Motor Vehicles Licensed     (vehicle)	500228	500673	503974	516782	525376
Telephone Lines                (10 000 lines)	362	371	384	395	393
Visitor Arrivals④            (10 000 person-times)	1127.3	1016.0	1132.8	1305.9	1372.5
Hotel Room Occupancy Rate        (%)	76	76	79	83	79
Public Accounts, Money and Finance
(HKD 100 million)
Government's Reserve Balances①	4575	4343	4443	4303	3725
Total Government Revenue①	2812	2161	2330	2251	1756
Total Government Expenditure
and Equity Investments①	1944	2394	2230	2329	2389
Money Supply definition 3 (M3)@
Hong Kong Dollar⑤	16704	18262	19230	19990	20129
Foreign Currency⑥	11552	12961	14388	16485	15321
Total	28256	31223	33618	36475	35450
Loans and Advances for Use in Hong Kong@	20373	19604	18198	18615	17901
Effective Exchange Rate Indices for	98.0	103.4	100.9	101.7	104.7
Hong Kong Dollar⑦
(trade-weighted)(January 2000=100)
Consumer Price Indices
(Oct. 1999-Sept.2000 =100)
Composite Consumer Price  index	104.5	107.5	103.2	99.4	97.8
Consumer Price Index(A)	103.2	105.9	102.5	99.5	97.8
Consumer Price Index(B)	105.5	108.5	103.4	99.4	97.7
Consumer Price Index(C)	104.6	107.9	103.9	99.3	97.8
Education
Student  Enrolment in Primary Day School	461911	476802	491851	493979	493075
(person)
Student  Enrolment in Secondary Day School	458118	455872	453465	456693	456455
(person)
Student  Enrolment in UGC-funded Institutions	86202	84538	83754	81472	82984
(person)
Medical and Health
Registered Deaths            (person)	32079	32680	33387	33993	33305
Deaths from Heart Diseases   (person)	4806	5060	5220	5537	5425^
Deaths from Malignant Neoplasms     (person)	10373	10691	10977	11222	10995^
Infant Mortality Rate
(per 1 000 Registered Live Births)	4.0	3.2	3.2	2.9	2.7^
Social Welfare
Comprehensive Social Security Assistance①
Number of Cases⑧         (case)	195645	232819	228015	228263	247192
Amount             (HKD 100 million)	94.41	130.29	136.23	135.60+	144.05‡
Social Security Allowances①
Number of Cases⑧        (case)	517865	526742	535452	550585	561208
Amount             (HKD 100 million)	44.20	47.37	48.83	51.30+	52.41‡
Traffic Accident Victims Assistance①
Number of Cases Authorized for	5655	5809	5797	5998	6733
Payment (case)
Amount               (HKD 10 000)	13740	16480	13350	13000	14200
Law and Order
Overall Reported Crime           (case)	67367	71962	76771	77245	73008
Total Violent Crime              (case)	13749	14682	15705	14812	13551
Total Offenders Arrested         (person)	41714	40422	40745	40930	38829
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)⑨
At Constant (2000) Market Prices
Annual Growth Rate           (%)	5.1	-5.0	3.4	10.2@	0.6@
GDP            (HKD 100 million)	11900	11308	11695	12883@	12965@
Per Capita GDP          (HKD)
	183374	172813	177019	193299@	192793@
At Current Market Prices
Annual Growth Rate                     (%)	11.0	-4.8	-2.6	3.4@	-0.7@
GDP            (HKD 100 million)	13445	12799	12461	12883@	12790@
Per Capita GDP           (HKD)
	207194	195585	188622	193299@	190188@
Gross National Product (GNP) ⑩
GNP at Current Market Prices
(HKD 100 million)	13550.21	13086.12	12809.11	13101.06@	13151.32@
Per Capita GNP            (HKD)
	208809	199980	193886	196565@	195562@
Total Net External Factor Income
Flows                 (HKD 100 million)	104.75	287.62	347.77	217.68	361.37@
Balance Of Payments Account(16)
Current Account(11) (HKD 100 million)	-	342.83	934.47	709.60@	915.25@
Capital and Financial Account(11) (HKD 100 million)	-	-315.14	-833.74	-578.63@	-857.17@
Net errors and omissions(12) (HKD 100 million)	-	-27.70	-100.74	-130.97@	-58.08@
Overall Balance Of Payments (HKD 100 million)	-	-525.81	778.67	783.21@	365.30@
		（赤字）	（盈余）	（盈余）	（盈余）
		(in deficit)	(in surplus)	(in surplus)	(in surplus)
International Investment Position(14)
Net International Investment
Position(15) (HKD 100 million)	-	-	-	17295.47@	21231.29@
External Financial Assets (HKD 100 million)	-	-	-	88992.95@	84877.70@
External Financial Liabilities (HKD 100 million)	-	-	-	71697.49@	63646.41@
Notes:   ①Figures are for the corresponding financial year. For example, figures for 1996 would represent the figures for financial year 1996/97.
②Excluding Private Sector  Participation Scheme .
③Starting from 1998, a new series of container though put statistics has been compiled. To facilitate comparison, figure for 1997 under the
new series are presented in brackets.
④Figures include arrival of non-Macao residents via Macao.
⑤Figures are adjusted to include foreign currency swap deposits.
⑥Figures are adjusted to exclude foreign currency swap deposits. Hong Kong dollar is the legal tender in the Hong Kong Special Admini-
strative  Region, as stated in "The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China".Foreign
currency refers to any currency other than the Hong Kong currency. Accordingly Chinese Renminbi is also treated as foreign currency.
⑦New series released since 2 January 2002.  For details, please see the feature article entitled “New Series of Effective Exchange Rate Index
for the Hong Kong Dollar” in the December 2001 issue of the "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics".
⑧Figures are as at end of the financial year.
⑨The Chinese term used in the publications of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is “本地生产总值”.
⑩The Chinese term used in the publications of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is “本地居民生产总值”. In line with
the latest major revision of GDP data series, GNP figures have been revised accordingly.
(11) A positive value for the balance figure in the current account represents a surplus whereas a negative value represents a deficit. For the
capital and financial account, a positive value indicates  a net capital and financial inflow and a negative value indicates a net outflow. As
increases in external assets are debit entries and decreases  are credit entries, a negative value for net change in reserve assets represents
a net increase and a positive value  represents a net decrease.
(12) In principle, the net sum of credit entries and debit entries is zero. In practice, discrepancies between the credit and debit entries may
however occur for various reasons as the data are collected from many sources. Equality between the sum of credit entries and debit entries
is  brought about by the inclusion of a balancing item which reflects net errors and omissions.
(13) The trade index numbers have been updated.  The new series has year 2000 as the base year.  In the new series, indexes for periods prior to
2000 are obtained by re-scaling the previously published series, which has 1990 as the base year, using a conversion factor derived from the
levels of the old and new series in the overlapping period of 2000.
(14) Position as at end of period.
(15) Net international investment position is the difference between total external financial assets and total external financial liabilities.
(16) In line with the latest major revision of GDP data series, relevant BoP figures for 1998 to 2001 have been revised.
^  Provisional figure.
@ Subject to revision later on.
+Includes the payments for 1 April 2001.
‡Includes the payment for 1 April 2002, but excludes the payments for 1 April 2001.