Hong Kong Population Changes

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Hong Kong Population Changes 1841 - 2000
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• 1841 61
• Population grew from 7450 119231
• NRI was low due to high BR DR
• Main source of growth due to immigration
• Hong Kong was made a Freeport by the British
• Economic opportunities was a big attraction -
  PULL FACTOR
• Taiping Rebellion in China - 1850 PUSH FACTOR
• Kowloon added in 1860 population included

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• 1861 - 1936
• Population grew from 119 231 to 988 190
• Main source of growth due to high NRI high
  births and falling deaths
• Political instability in China drove large
  numbers of refugees into HK
• New Territories leased in 1898 population is
  then added tot he total

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• 1936 - 1946
• Population went through great fluctuations
• 1936 1941 population increase to 1.6 million
• 1945 it dropped to 600 00
• 1946 it rose to 1.5 million 138 increase!
• 1936 Japan invades China
• 1941 45 Japan occupies HK
• 1945 war ends Japan defeated

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• 1946 1961
• Population doubles from 1.5 to 3.1 million
• High rate of growth
• NRI very high
• Baby boom period
• 1946 1949 mainland civil war refugee influx

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1961 present Rate of NRI is falling Industrializ
ation of HK Controlled immigration
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• Summary of Population Changes
• Hong Kongs population has changed in a number of
  ways over the period of 1840s to the present,
  2005 (160 years )
• Numerical Change Growth
• From 1840, 7000 people to the current population
  of 7 million
• Steady growth
• Some fluctuations, notably during WW II period

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• Summary of Population Changes
• .Spatial Change Rural Urban Shift
• When the British arrived, all people would have
  lived within a village settlement scattered
  throughout the territory depending on farming
  fishing
• As the British established a trading port, the
  urban settlement began to grow slowly over
  time, people would move from the rural
  settlements and settle in the more urban
  environment centered on the harbour and its
  activities
• Up until the 1950s, a sizable population
  remained in the rural areas islands, and New
  Territories, pursuing a traditional lifestyle
• After the 1950s a rapid decline in the rural
  population as people moved out in droves to
  work in the newly established manufacturing and
  service industries and the development of New
  Towns (1970s) rural settlements began to
  decline rapidly
• By the 1980s all but of a few rural settlements
  declined, and 99 of the population of HK was to
  be found in urban environments

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• Summary of Population Changes
• Qualitative Change Racial/Ethnic Mix
• As HK has expanded its trading, banking and
  tourism industry, it has become more ethnically
  and racially mixed compared to its past
• Never the less, 94 of the population is still
  Chinese
• Refer to pie chart for reference

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