25-1  Principal Statistical Indicators
Items	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Population and Vital Events
Mid-year Estimates of Population              (10 000)	43.4	43.9	44.5	45.7	47.7
Crude Birth Rate                                                 (‰)	7.5	7.2	7.2	7.2	7.7
Crude Death Rate                                                (‰)	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.4
Labour
Labour Force                                               (10 000)	21.7	21.4	21.6	22.9	24.8
Labour Force Participation Rate                         (%)	64.8	62.3	60.9	61.9	63.1
Unemployment Rate                                           (%)	6.4	6.3	6.0	4.8	4.1
Underemployment Rate                                      (%)	3.6	3.4	2.7	1.9	1.4
Employed Population                                 (10 000)	20.3	20.1	20.3	21.8	23.8
Manufacturing	4.4	4.1	3.7	3.6	3.6
Wholesale and Retail	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.5	3.5
Hotels and Restaurants	2.2	2.3	2.2	2.4	2.5
Public Administration, Community,	5.6	5.9	6.0	6.9	8.1
Social and Personal Services
External Trade
Exports                                       (100 million MOP)	185	189	207	226	198
Domestic Exports                 (100 million MOP)	151	148	163	173	144
Re-exports                             (100 million MOP)	33	42	44	52	55
Imports                                       (100 million MOP)	192	203	221	279	313
Terms of Trade Index (1996=100)	100.0	99.7	100.9	99.0	95.1
Industrial Production
Electricity Consumption              (100 million kwh)	1.5	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.5
Construction (Private Sector)
Units Completed and Extended                       (No.)
	2622	381	1566	1108	1277
Gross Floor Area of Buildings Completed
and Extended                                  (10 000 sq.m)	40	10	24	22	39
Units Started                                                    (No.)	812	1326	2658	2757	4947
Gross Floor Area of
Buildings Started                            (10 000 sq.m)	16	16	53	72	213
Number of Units Sold                                      (No.)	27016	16831	18556	27823	33644
Deed of Real Estate Transacted                       (No.)	12992	17513	14400	18623	20022
Real Estate Mortgage Loans                            (No.)	8206	9902	9198	13786	14769
Transport, Communications, Tourism
Lorries Entering and Departing Macao      (10 000)	45.8	47.8	47.8	56.6	60.8
Ferry Trips Entering and Departing Macao (10 000)	7.4	7.7	7.7	8.6	9.2
Commercial Flights at Macao International	2.9	3.4	2.9	3.8	4.3
Airport                                                       (10 000)
Licensed Vehicles                                       (10 000)	11.6	12.4	13.2	14.3	15.4
Telephone Lines                                          (10 000)	37.1	45.2	53.9	60.6	70.7
Visitors                                                       (10 000)	1028	1153	1189	1667	1871
Hotel Occupancy Rate                                        (%)	61	67	64	76	71
Government Accounts, Money and
Finance                                      (100 million MOP)
Total Government Revenue①	156	152	184	239r	230
Total Government Expenditure①	152	135	157	177r	160
Money Supply (M2)
MOP②	261	275	297	314	367
HKD	469	512	594	662	701
Other Currencies	185	202	220	234	288
Total	916	990	1111	1209r	1357
Loans/Advances to Resident Firms & Individuals	355	336	331	355r	425
Consumer Price Index
(October/1999 - September/2000=100)
Composite Consumer Price Index	97.5	94.9	93.5	94.4	98.5
Consumer Price Index (A)	98.2	95.9	94.6	95.7	100.0
Consumer Price Index  (B)	97.4	94.6	93.1	94.0	97.9
Housing  (End of period balance)
Public Housing ③                                      (No.)	9405	9656	7037	6829	6936
Education④
Pre-primary Education                                (Students)	13638	12737	11936	11128
Primary Education                                      (Students)	43709	41535	39278	37216
Secondary Education                                  (Students)	41132	43999	45600	43851
Higher Education                                        (Students)	8520	11995	13680	13967
Health
Registered Deaths                                              (No.)	1327	1415	1474	1533	1615
Deaths of Heart Diseases                               (No.)	291	296	329	298r	343
Deaths of Cancers                                          (No.)	401	439	421	477r	455
Infant Mortality Rate	4.3	3.5	0.6	3.0	3.3
(per 1000 registered live births)
Social Security
Beneficiaries                                                 (person)	127703	138514	145677	164165	181117
Contributors	8919	9421	10078	11013	12305
Number of Payments Granted                      (10 000)	17.7	23.6	30.4	28.3	23.9
Amount of Payments Granted            (10 000 MOP)	22132	34610	53003	45302	28556
Crime
Number of Crimes	8905	9088	9920	9786	10538
Number of Prisoners                (as at the end of year)	886	928	913	867	897
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ⑤
At Constant  (2002) Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Real Growth Rate        (%)	2.9	10.1	14.2	28.3r	6.7
GDP                                           (100 million MOP)	497.8	548.2	625.8	802.8r	856.3
GDP per Capita                                 (10 000 MOP)	11.5	12.5	14.1	17.5	18.0
At Current Prices
Expenditure-based GDP Nominal Growth Rate (%)	1.5	10.3	16	30.4r	11.7
GDP                                          (100 million MOP)	497.0	548.2	635.7r	829.0r	925.9
GDP per Capita                                (10 000 MOP)	11.5	12.5	14.3	18.1	19.4
Notes:①Because of incomplete data on the revenue and expenditure of the Autonomous Agencies in the specific accounts of 2005,
the total revenue and the total expenditure of 2005 are not directly comparable with those of 2004.
Figures of 2005 are subject to revisions as more data become available.
②Pataca (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".
③Excluding the units that had been sold.
④Excluding students in special education. The number of students of year n refer to the students at the end of academic year n/n+1.
⑤Major revision to GDP series was conducted in 2005 and the base year was renewed from 1996 to 2002.