25-1 Principal Statistical Indicators
Items	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Population and Demographics Characteristics
Mid-year Estimates of Population (10 000)	42.7	43.1	43.4	43.9	44.5
Crude Birth Rate (‰)	9.7	8.9	7.5	7.2	7.2
Crude Death Rate (‰)	3.2	3.1	3.1	3.2	3.3
Labour①
Labour Force (10 000)	20.9	20.9	21.7	21.4	21.6
Labour Force Participation Rate (%)	65.5	64.3	64.8	62.3	60.9
Unemployment Rate (%)	6.3	6.8	6.4	6.3	6.0
Underemployment Rate (%)	1.3	3.0	3.6	3.4	2.7
Employed Population (10 000)	19.6	19.5	20.3	20.1	20.3
Manufacturing	4.3	3.8	4.4	4.1	3.7
Wholesale and Retail	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.1	3.3
Hotels and Restaurants	2.1	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.2
Public Administration, Community,	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.9r	6.0
Social and Personal Services
External Trade
Exports (100 million MOP)	176	204	185	189	207
Domestic Exports (100 million MOP)	150	171	151	148	163
Re-exports (100 million MOP)	25	33	33	42	44
Imports (100 million MOP)	163	181	192	203	221
Terms of Trade Index (1996=100)	103.1	100.7	100.0	99.7	100.9
Industrial Production
Electricity Consumption (100 million kwh)	1.8r	1.6r	1.5r	1.9r	2.0
Construction (Private Sector)
Units Completed and Extended (No.)
	5389	3146	2622	381	1566
Gross Floor Area of Buildings Completed
and Extended (10 000 sq.m)	67	37	40	10	24
Units Started (No.)	3619	1167	812	1326	2658
Gross Floor Area of
Buildings Started (10 000 sq.m)	42	20	16	16	53
Number of Units Sold (No.)	11039	10211	27016	16831r	18556
Deed of Real Estate Transacted (No.)	12230	12484	12992	17513	14400
Real Estate Mortgage Loans (No.)	7363	7367	8206	9902	9198
Transport, Communications, Tourism
Lorries Entering and Departing Macao (10 000)	24.2	45.4*	45.8*	47.8*	47.8*
Ferry Trips Entering and Departing Macao (10 000)	6.8	7.5	7.4	7.7	7.7
Commercial Flights at Macao International	2.1	2.4	2.9	3.4	2.9
Airport (10 000)
Licensed Vehicles (10 000)	11.4	11.4	11.6	12.4	13.2
Telephone Lines (10 000)	30.0	31.8	37.1	45.2	53.9
Visitors (10 000)	744	916	1028	1153	1189
Hotel Occupancy Rate (%)	54	58	61	67	64
Government Accounts, Money and
Finance (100 million MOP)
Total Government Revenue②	169	153	156	152r	141
Total Government Expenditure②	166	150	152	135r	115
Money Supply (M2)
MOP③	280	232	261	275	296
HKD	441	445	469	512	594
Other Currencies	140	172	185	202	220
Total	861	849	916	990	1111
Loans/Advances to Resident Firms & Individuals	414	382	355	336	331
Consumer Price Index
(October/1999 - September/2000=100)
Composite Consumer Price Index	101.1	99.5	97.5	94.9	93.5
Consumer Price Index (A)	101.0	99.6	98.2	95.9	94.6
Consumer Price Index (B)	101.0	99.4	97.4	94.6	93.1
Housing (End of period balance)
Public Housing (No.) ④	9084	9084	9405	9656	7037
Education ⑤
Pre-primary Education ( Students)	16083	14978	13638	12737
Primary Education (Students)	47059	45474	43709	41535
Secondary Education (Students)	34761	38156	41132	43999
Higher Education (Students)	7094	8358	8520	11995
Health
Registered Deaths (No.)	1374	1338	1327	1415	1474
Deaths of Heart Diseases (No.)	274	326	291	296	329
Deaths of Cancers (No.)	366	383	401	439	421
Infant Mortality Rate	4.1	2.9	4.3	3.5	0.6
(per 1000 registered live births)
Social Security
Beneficiaries (persons)	115698	122327	127703	138514	145677
Contributors(No.)	7609	8451	8919	9421r	10078
Number of Payments Granted (10 000)	15.8	16.3	17.7	23.6	30.4
Amount of Payments Granted (10 000 MOP)	14716	20191	22132	34610	53003
Crime
Number of Crimes	9262	8925	8905	9088	9920
Number of Prisoners (as at the end of year)	788	847r	886	928	913
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ②
At Constant (1996) Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Real Growth Rate (%)	-3.0	4.6	2.2	10.0r	15.6
GDP (100 million MOP)	510.2	533.8	545.6	600.3r	694.1
GDP per Capita (10 000 MOP)	11.9	12.4	12.6	13.7r	15.6
At Current Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Nominal Growth Rate (%)	-5.6	1.5	0.2	8.9r	16.7
GDP (100 million MOP)	490.2	497.4	498.6	542.9r	633.7
GDP per Capita (10 000 MOP)	11.5	11.6	11.5	12.4r	14.3
Notes: ①The data referring to 'Labour' and those in Tables 25-4, 25-5 and 25-6 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.
②Because there are no data available on the revenue and expenditure of autonomous bodies in the specific accounts of 2003, the total revenue
and the total expenditure of 2003 are not directly comparable with those of 2002. Figures of 2003 are subject to revisions as more data
become available.
③Pataca (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".
④Excluding the units that had been sold.
⑤Excluding students in special education. The number of students of year n refer to the students at the end of academic year n/n+1.
*Including the Border gate and the Checkpoint of CoTai.