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This quarterly publication contains the latest figures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Figures of Gross National Product (GNP) are also included.
Latest Issue: Second Quarter 2010 Release Date: 13 August 2010
This publication provides an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in the Hong Kong economy, covering both the external and domestic sectors. The numerous charts and tables contained therein complement discussion in the text.
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Latest Issue: August 2010 Release Date: 13 August 2010
This quarterly publication contains the latest Balance of Payments (BoP), International Investment Position (IIP) and External Debt (ED) statistics, including concepts and definitions, data sources, interpretation of BoP, IIP and ED statistics, and detailed statistical tables and charts.
Latest Issue: First Quarter 2010 Release Date: 22 June 2010
Latest Issue: First Quarter 2010 Release Date: 22 June 2010
This annual publication contains quarterly series of GDP from the first quarter of 1973 and annual series of GDP from 1961. It also gives a detailed description on the concepts, definitions, data sources and compilation methods for the GDP. Figures of GNP are also included.
Latest Issue: 2009 Edition Release Date: 24 February 2010
This annual publication provides a detailed analysis of Hong Kong's economic performance over the past year, covering both the external and domestic sectors. The publication also discusses the short-term and medium-term outlook for the Hong Kong economy, with analyses ... More
Latest Issue: 2010 Edition Release Date: 24 February 2010
This publication presents external direct investment statistics of Hong Kong, including both inward and outward direct investment, with a view to providing a complete picture of the direct investment situation of Hong Kong.
Latest Issue: 2008 Edition Release Date: 10 December 2009
This special report introduces the concepts and compilation method of the chain volume measures of GDP. It also presents the historical series of the volume measures of GDP up to the second quarter of 2007, recalculated based on the annually re-weighted chain linking approach.
Latest Issue: 2007 Edition Release Date: 18 October 2007
This annual publication discusses the short-term outlook for the Hong Kong economy, with analyses of the various factors affecting the external economic environment as well as the local factors on the domestic front.
Latest Issue: 2004 Edition Release Date: 10 March 2004
This annual publication provides an in-depth analysis of Hong Kong's economic performance over the past year, covering both the external and domestic sectors. The numerous charts and tables contained therein complement discussion in the text.
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Latest Issue: 2003 Edition Release Date: 10 March 2004
This is the first dedicated publication on Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics of Hong Kong. It contains conceptual framework of BoP account, detailed description on the methodology and data sources of compiling the BoP statistics, as well as interpretation of Hong ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 31 July 2000
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With the use of tables and charts, this half-monthly publication presents up-to-date monthly and quarterly data of major economic indicators which help readers grasp the pulse of Hong Kong's economy before more detailed statistics become available. Details on concepts and definitions can be found in ... More
Latest Issue: 2010 Issue No.16 Release Date: 31 August 2010
This monthly publication is a compact volume of official statistics containing 140 tables in 13 sections. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Statistics are presented whenever possible in the form of monthly or ... More
Latest Issue: August 2010 Release Date: 20 August 2010
The Hong Kong Social and Economic Trends is published biennially in odd-numbered years. It aims to present selected major annual data series relating to various social and economic aspects of Hong Kong for analysis. With the use of tables and charts as well as textual descriptions, this ... More
Latest Issue: 2009 Edition Release Date: 30 November 2009
The Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics is a comprehensive and convenient collection of official statistics. This publication aims to provide detailed annual statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic developments of Hong Kong. Most of the data are presented in respect of 7 ... More
Latest Issue: 2009 Edition Release Date: 23 November 2009
This publication brings together in a handy volume a number of feature articles published in the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics in recent years. The feature articles in this publication contain relevant data which reflect the social and economic situations of Hong Kong "here and now" and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 15 August 2008
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In 2009, Hong Kong residents made 70.6 million person-trips to the Mainland for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the Mainland, business travel accounted for 31% (or 21.6 million person-trips) and personal travel for 69% (or 49.0 million person-trips).
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Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 July 2010
A Balance of Payments (BoP) Account is an integrated statistical statement that systematically summarises, for a specific time period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. A complete BoP Account comprises two broad accounts: (a) the Current Account; and (b) the ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 May 2010
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating employment. A feature article ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 March 2010
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2008, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other sources.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 January 2010
Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics are important for monetary and financial monitoring and policy deliberations in different areas in both local and international contexts. In analysing the BoP account, the first glance is often at the overall balance of payments (or overall BoP balance). The ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 January 2010
International Investment Position (IIP) is a balance sheet showing an economy's stock of external financial assets and liabilities at a particular time point. This article describes salient features of Hong Kong's IIP for the period 2000 to 2008.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 December 2009
Analyses of the social and economic characteristics of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China (the Mainland) were first introduced in a feature article in the May 2002 issue of the Digest. Updates of the analyses are provided annually. In 2008, Hong Kong residents made ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 September 2009
In 2008, Hong Kong residents made a total of 70.3 million person-trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 34% (or 23.8 million person-trips) and personal travel for 66% (or 46.5 million ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 July 2009
Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics are important for monetary and financial monitoring and policy deliberations in different areas in both local and international contexts. Such data also provide an objective basis for gauging the economic situation and in assessing the financial soundness of an ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 June 2009
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating employment. A feature article ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2009
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2007, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other sources.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 January 2009
External Debt (ED) statistics provide useful information for international financial surveillance. Reliable, comprehensive and timely ED data allow users to monitor the development of an economy's external liabilities and hence its debt servicing obligations over time. It can also provide early ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 October 2008
Amid the rapidly changing financial environment, Portfolio Investment (PI) statistics provide an objective basis for decisions on financial monitoring and policy deliberation in the public sector. In addition, PI statistics also support informed business decisions formulation and investment ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 September 2008
Analyses of the social and economic characteristics of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China (the Mainland) were first introduced in a feature article in the May 2002 issue of the Digest. Updates of the analyses are provided annually.
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Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 September 2008
In 2007, Hong Kong residents made a total of 69.7 million person-trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 33% (or 22.9 million person-trips) and personal travel for 67% (or 46.8 million ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 July 2008
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating employment.
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Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2008
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2006, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other sources.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 January 2008
This article compares the International Investment Position statistics of Hong Kong for the year 2006 with those of selected economies, which include Australia, Canada, the mainland of China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 October 2007
The change in the volume of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is widely used as an important macro-economic indicator of the real growth of the aggregate economic activity of an economy.
The Census and Statistics Department released for the first time the chain volume measures of GDP to replace the ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 October 2007
Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics are important for monetary and financial monitoring and policy deliberations in different areas in both local and international contexts. Such data also provide an objective basis for gauging the economic situation and in assessing the financial soundness of an ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 August 2007
Analyses of the social and economic characteristics of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China (the Mainland) were first introduced in a feature article in the May 2002 issue of the Digest. Updates of the analyses are provided annually.
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Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 June 2007
In 2006, Hong Kong residents made a total of 65.8 million person-trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 34% (or 22.4 million person-trips) and personal travel for 66% (or 43.4 million ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 May 2007
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating employment. A feature ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2007
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2005, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 January 2007
The volume and importance of transactions in derivative instruments have grown rapidly in Hong Kong in recent years, in particular the remarkable development of the derivative warrants market. This feature article briefly describes financial derivative instruments and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 November 2006
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an important indicator for measuring the economic performance of an economy. GDP is widely used in macroeconomic analysis and comparative studies of the social and economic situations among different economies. This article presents the ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 September 2006
Analyses of the social and economic characteristics of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China (the Mainland) were first introduced in a feature article in the May 2002 issue of the Digest. Updates of the analyses are provided ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 July 2006
In 2005, Hong Kong residents made a total of 62.8 million person-trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 36% (or 22.7 million person-trips) and personal travel for 64% ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 May 2006
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2006
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2004, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 January 2006
This article compares the International Investment Position statistics of Hong Kong for the year 2004 with those of selected economies, which include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 October 2005
The Census and Statistics Department has recently completed an exercise to implement the latest international guidelines on dealing with financial intermediation services provided by banks in the estimation of national accounts statistics. The latest guidelines enable ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 19 August 2005
Analyses of the social and economic characteristics of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China (the Mainland) were first introduced in a feature article in the May 2002 issue of this Digest. Updates of the analyses are provided ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 July 2005
In 2004, Hong Kong residents made a total of 59.7 million person-trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 35% (or 21.1 million person-trips) and personal travel for 65% ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 May 2005
Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors, and creating ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 March 2005
This feature article presents an analysis of inward and outward direct investment of Hong Kong in 2003, based on the findings of the Survey of External Claims, Liabilities and Income conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, supplemented by data from other sources.
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 January 2005
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an important indicator for measuring the economic performance of an economy. GDP is widely used in macroeconomic analysis and comparative studies of the social and economic situations among different economies. This article presents the concepts of the GDP and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 October 2004
The mainland of China has all along been a popular destination of Hong Kong residents' outbound travel. Statistics on consumption expenditure of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to the mainland of China were published in a feature article in the May 2004 issue of this digest. ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 June 2004
In 2003, Hong Kong residents made a total of 52.6 million trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 35% (or 18.6 million person-trips) and personal travel for 65% (or 34.0 million ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 May 2004
The Census and Statistics Department compiles annual statistics on the structural and operating characteristics of the various economic sectors. The statistics compiled are very useful to both the government and the private sector in formulating policies and making decisions. This article first ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 May 2004
Gross external debt (ED), at any point in time, is the outstanding amount of those actual current, and not contingent, liabilities that require payment(s) of principal and/or interest by the debtor at some point(s) in time in the future and that are owed to non-residents by residents of an ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 May 2004
External investment activities have been playing an important part in shaping the economic development of Hong Kong. At the end of 2002, the position of Hong Kongˇ¦s inward direct investment and outward direct investment at market value continued to be substantial, amounting to $2,622.3 billion ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 March 2004
An article analysing the economic contribution and employment situation in respect of the Four Pillar Industries for 2001 was published in the December 2003 issue of the report Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics. The present article is an updated version of the feature article published in ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 March 2004
In the 2002/03 Budget Speech, the Government identified financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services as the Four Pillar Industries in the Hong Kong economy. The Four Pillar Industries have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 23 December 2003
International investment position (IIP) is a balance sheet showing an economyˇ¦s stock of external financial assets and liabilities at a particular time point.
This article compares the IIP statistics of Hong Kong for the year 2002 with those of selected economies, which include ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 October 2003
The Census and Statistics Department published in June this year statistics on International Investment Position (IIP) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) for the reference year of 2002. IIP is a balance sheet showing an economyˇ¦s stock of external financial assets ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 July 2003
In 2002, Hong Kong residents made a total of 38.4 million personal trips to the mainland of China. Among these, 45.4% (or 17.4 million person-trips) were destined for Shenzhen, 48.2% (or 18.5 million person-trips) for other places in the Guangdong Province and the remaining 6.4% (or 2.5 ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 July 2003
In 2002, Hong Kong residents made a total of 55.6 million trips to the mainland of China for business and personal purposes. Of all the trips to the mainland of China, business travel accounted for 31% (or 17.2 million person-trips) and personal travel for 69% (or 38.4 million ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 May 2003
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