24-1    Principal Statistical Indicators
Items	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Population and Demographics Characteristics
Mid-year Estimates of Population (10 000)	41.7r	42.2r	42.7r	43.1r	43.4
Crude Birth Rate (‰)	12.1r	10.5r	9.7r	8.9r	7.5
Crude Death Rate (‰)	3.1r	3.2r	3.2r	3.1r	3.1
Labour①
Labour Force (10 000)	20.2	20.6	20.9	20.9	21.7
Labour Force Participation Rate (%)	66.1	66.0	65.5	64.3	64.8
Unemployment Rate (%)	3.2	4.6	6.3	6.8	6.4
Underemployment Rate (%)	0.8	1.5	1.3	3.0	3.6
Employed Population (10 000)	19.6	19.7	19.6	19.5	20.3
Manufacturing	4.1	4.1	4.3	3.8	4.4
Wholesale and Retail	3.0	3.2	3.0	3.0	3.0
Hotels and Restaurants	2.1	2.3	2.1	2.1	2.2
Public Administration, Community,	6.1	5.1	5.5	5.6	5.6
Social and Personal Services
External Trade
Exports (100 million MOP)	171	171	176	204	185
Domestic Exports (100 million MOP)	150	149	150	171	151
Re-exports (100 million MOP)	21	22	25	33	33
Imports (100 million MOP)	166	156	163	181	192
Terms of Trade Index (1996=100)	98.9	102.2	103.1	100.7	100.0
Industrial Production
Electricity Consumption (100 million kwh)	1.5	1.8	1.7	1.5	1.5
Construction (Private Sector)
Units Completed and Extended (No.)
	9096	8321	5389	3146	2622
Gross Floor Area of Buildings Completed
and Extended (10 000 sq.m)	115	97	67	37	40
Units Started (No.)	7684	3825	3619	1167	812
Gross Floor Area of
Buildings Started (10 000 sq.m)	85	57	42	20	16
Number of Units Sold (No.)	14304	12776	11039	10211	27016
Deed of Real Estate Transacted (No.)	12255	13361	12230	12484	12992
Real Estate Mortgage Loans (No.)	8511	8696	7363	7367	8206
Transport, Communications, Tourism
Lorries Entering and Departing Macao (10 000)	29.1	24.3	24.2	45.4*	45.8*
Ferry Trips Entering and Departing Macao (10 000)	8.1	8.0	6.8	6.6	7.4
Commercial Flights at Macao International	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.4	2.9
Airport (10 000)
Licensed Vehicles (10 000)	9.6	10.7	11.3	11.3	11.5
Telephone Lines (10 000)	22.3	25.1	30.0	31.8r	37.1
Visitors (10 000)	700	695	744	916	1028
Hotel Occupancy Rate (%)	50	51	54r	58	61
Government Accounts, Money and
Finance (100 million MOP)
Total Government Revenue②	150	155	169	153	98
Total Government Expenditure②	142	155	166	150	94
Money Supply (M2)③
MOP④	242	249r	279r	228r	261
HKD	416	429r	439r	443r	467
Other Currencies	126	130r	140r	172r	185
Total	784	807r	858r	843r	913
Loans/Advances to Resident Firms & Individuals③	478	419r	414r	382r	356
Consumer Price Index
(October/1999 - September/2000=100)
Composite Consumer Price Index		104.5	101.1	99.5	97.5
Consumer Price Index (A)		104.1	101.0	99.6	98.2
Consumer Price Index (B)		104.2	101.0	99.4	97.4
Housing (End of period balance)
Social Housing  (No.)	7420	7824	9084	9084	9405
Education ⑤
Pre-primary Education ( Students)	18291	17354	16083	14978
Primary Education (Students)	47235	48269	47059	45474
Secondary Education (Students)	28280	31782	34761	38156
Higher Education (Students)	7409	8444	7094	8358
Health
Registered Deaths (No.)	1293	1356	1374	1338	1327
Deaths of Heart Diseases (No.)	304	292	274	357	291
Deaths of Cancers (No.)	325	335	366	370	401
Infant Mortality Rate	5.4	6.1	4.1	2.9	4.3
(per 1000 registered live births)
Social Security
Contributors (persons)	7066	7360	7609	8451	8919
Number of Payments Granted (10 000)	10.8	13.0	15.8	16.3	17.7
Amount of Payments Granted  (10 000 MOP)	8998	11146	14716	20191	22132
Crime
Number of Crimes	8162	8487	9262	8925	8905
Number of Prisoners  (as at the end of year)	657	711	788	868	886
Gross Domestic Product  (GDP) ②⑥
At Constant (1996) Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Real Growth Rate (%)	-0.3	-4.6	-3.0r	4.6	2.1
GDP (100 million MOP)	551.4	526.2r	510.2r	533.8r	545.2
GDP per Capita (10 000 MOP)	13.2r	12.5r	11.9r	12.4r	12.6
At Current Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Nominal Growth Rate (%)	1.1	-7.1	-5.6r	1.5	0.1
GDP (100 million MOP)	558.9	519.0	490.2r	497.4r	498.0
GDP per Capita (10 000 MOP)	13.4r	12.3r	11.5r	11.6r	11.5
Notes: ①The data referring to 'Labour' and those in Tables 23-4, 23-5 and 23-6 are provided by Employment Survey.
Since the population estimates, which serve as the base for statistical inference in the Employment Survey,
have been adjusted after Census 2001, the resulting indicators for the previous periods before 2001 were thus revised accordingly.
②Figures of 2001 are subject to revisions as more data become available.
③ In compliance with the definition of residency recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
figures for the years from 1998 to 2000 were adjusted accordingly.
④Pataca (MOP) is the legal tender in the Macao Special Administrative Region, as stated in "The Basic Law of the Macao Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China".
⑤Excluded students in special education. The number of students of year n refer to the students at the end of academic year n/n+1.
⑥The Chinese term used in the publications of the Macao Special Administrative Region is "本地生产总值".