SCMP reports…….Hong Kong experiences ‘alarming’ population drop, but government says not all 90,000 leaving city because of national security law
- Number of people in city now estimated to be 7.39 million, a 1.2 per cent drop in a year
- Social administration expert Professor Paul Yip says officials should try and address the concerns of those going elsewhere
Nearly 90,000 residents have left Hong Kong amid a wave of emigration in the year after the national security law
was imposed, leading to a significant 1.2 per cent drop in the city’s population.
The decline to 7.39 million people is the biggest since the local population saw the first signs of a decreasing trend in the middle of 2020, by 0.3 per cent year on year.
Before that there had always been steady growth since mid-2003, with an increase rate ranging from 0.2 to 1.1 per cent leading to a population of 7.5 million by the middle of last year.
