Editing Hong Kong (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Main|Demographics of Hong Kong|Hong Kong people}}
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|+ style="text-align: right;" | Death rates (No. of Deaths per 100,000 Population) by leading causes of death, based on ICD 10th Revision.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/statistics/data/10/27/117.html | title=Death Rates by Leading Causes of Death, 2001 – 2021 | access-date=8 April 2023 | archive-date=8 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408181119/https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/statistics/data/10/27/117.html | url-status=live }}</ref> <span style="color:crimson">Red</span>: increased compared with 2001. Deaths from [[dementia]] increased more than 5 times from 2001 to 2021.
! Cause of Death !! 2001 !! 2011 !! 2021
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| 1. Malignant neoplasms || 169.9 || 187.2 || <span style="color:crimson">203.8</span>
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| 2. Pneumonia || 45.1 || 87.8 || <span style="color:crimson">'''132.6'''</span>
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| 3. Diseases of heart || 70 || 89.6 || <span style="color:crimson">89</span>
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| 4. Cerebrovascular || 46.6 || 47.2 || 42.2
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| 5. External causes of <br />morbidity and mortality || 27.5 || 22.2 || 26.7
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| 6. Nephritis, nephrotic <br />syndrome and nephrosis || 15.7 || 21.8 || <span style="color:crimson">24</span>
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| 7. '''Dementia''' || 3.8 || 10.6 || <span style="color:crimson">'''20.2'''</span>
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| 8. Septicaemia || 6.3 || 10.8 || <span style="color:crimson">16.8</span>
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| 9. Chronic lower <br />respiratory diseases || 31.5 || 27.8 || 14.3
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| 10. Diabetes mellitus || 10.1 || 6.5 || 7.4
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| All other causes || 69.7 || 85 || <span style="color:crimson">118.1</span>
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| All causes || 496 || 596.6 ||<span style="color:crimson" >695.2</span>
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[[File:Bevölkerungspyramide Hongkong 2016.png|thumb|alt=Population graph|2016 [[population pyramid]]]]

The [[Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong)|Census and Statistics Department]] estimated Hong Kong's population at 7,413,070 in 2021. The overwhelming majority (91.6%) is [[Han Chinese]],<ref name="demographics" /> most of whom are [[Sze Yap people in Hong Kong|Taishanese]], [[Teochew people|Teochew]], [[Hakka people|Hakka]], and other [[Cantonese people]]s.<ref>{{harvnb|Fan|1974}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Carroll|2007|pp=144–147}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Yu|2013}}.</ref> The remaining 8.4% are non-ethnic Chinese minorities, primarily [[Filipinos in Hong Kong|Filipinos]], [[Indonesians in Hong Kong|Indonesians]], and [[South Asians in Hong Kong|South Asians]].<ref name="demographics" /><ref>{{harvnb|Erni|Leung|2014|pp=18, 22}}.</ref> However, most Filipinos and Indonesians in Hong Kong are short-term workers. According to a 2021 thematic report by the Hong Kong government, after excluding foreign domestic helpers, the real number of non-Chinese ethnic minorities in the city was 301,344, or 4% of Hong Kong's population.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Statistical Product|url=https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1120100&scode=459|access-date=28 November 2021|website=www.censtatd.gov.hk|archive-date=7 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407171137/https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1120100&scode=459|url-status=live}}</ref> About half the population have [[British nationality law|some form of British nationality]], a legacy of colonial rule; 3.4&nbsp;million residents have [[British National (Overseas)]] status, and 260,000 British citizens live in the territory.<ref>{{harvnb|FCO Written Evidence|2014}}.</ref> The vast majority also hold [[Chinese nationality law|Chinese nationality]], automatically granted to all ethnic Chinese residents at the handover.<ref>{{harvnb|Standing Committee Interpretation Concerning Implementation of Chinese Nationality Law in Hong Kong}}</ref> Headline [[population density]] exceeds 7,060 people/km<sup>2</sup>, and is the [[List of countries and dependencies by population density|fourth-highest]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?locations=HK|title=Population density (people per sq km of land area) – Hong Kong SAR, China|work=[[World Bank]]|access-date=6 August 2022|archive-date=16 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516120537/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?locations=HK|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple (1944336752).jpg|thumb|[[Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)|Wong Tai Sin Temple]] is dedicated to the [[Taoism|Taoist]] deity [[Wong Tai Sin]].]]
Among the religious population, the traditional "[[three teachings]]" of China, [[Chinese Buddhism|Buddhism]], [[Confucianism]], and [[Taoism]], have the most adherents (20%), followed by [[Christianity]] (12%) and [[Islam in Hong Kong|Islam]] (4%).<ref name="religionFacts">{{harvnb|Religion and Custom Facts|2016}}.</ref> Followers of other religions, including [[Sikhism]], [[Hinduism]], and [[Judaism]], generally originate from regions where their religion predominates.<ref name="religionFacts" />

Life expectancy in Hong Kong was 81.3 years for males and 87.2 years for females in 2022, one of the highest in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/statistics/data/10/27/111.html |title=Life Expectancy at Birth (Male and Female), 1971 – 2022 |publisher=Hong Kong Government Centrer of Health Protection |access-date=16 August 2023 |archive-date=16 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816122342/https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/statistics/data/10/27/111.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The birth rate in 2023 was 0.751 per woman of child-bearing age.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=zh:社評：人口問題精準施策 謀求旺丁要新思維 |trans-title=Editorial: Targeted measures to address population issues require new thinking to achieve population growth |url=https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e7%a4%be%e8%a9%95/article/20250201/s00003/1738345318623/%e7%a4%be%e8%a9%95-%e4%ba%ba%e5%8f%a3%e5%95%8f%e9%a1%8c%e7%b2%be%e6%ba%96%e6%96%bd%e7%ad%96-%e8%ac%80%e6%b1%82%e6%97%ba%e4%b8%81%e8%a6%81%e6%96%b0%e6%80%9d%e7%b6%ad |access-date=1 February 2025 |work=[[Ming Pao]] |date=1 February 2025 |language=zh-hant}}</ref> [[Cancer]], [[pneumonia]], [[cardiovascular disease|heart disease]], [[cerebrovascular disease]], and accidents are the territory's five leading causes of death.<ref name="2017HealthFacts">{{harvnb|Health Facts|2017}}.</ref> The [[Universal health care|universal public healthcare system]] is funded by general-tax revenue, and treatment is highly subsidised; on average, 95% of healthcare costs are covered by the government.<ref>{{harvnb|Wong|Yeoh|Chau|Yam|2015|p=262}}.</ref>

The city has a severe amount of income inequality,<ref>{{cite web |title=Country Comparison: GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604195034/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html |archive-date=4 June 2011 |access-date=15 January 2018 |work=[[The World Factbook]] |publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]}}</ref> which has risen since the handover, as the region's ageing population has gradually added to the number of nonworking people.<ref>{{harvnb|Household Income Distribution|2021|p=3}}</ref> Although median household income steadily increased during the decade to 2021, the wage gap remained high;<ref name="IncomeDistribution">{{harvnb|Household Income Distribution|2021|p=50}}</ref> the 90th percentile of earners receive 41% of all income.<ref name="IncomeDistribution" /> The city has the most billionaires per capita, with one billionaire per 109,657 people,<ref>{{harvnb|Desjardins|2018}}.</ref> as well as the [[List of cities by number of billionaires|second-highest number of billionaires]] of any city in the world,<ref>{{cite web |author=Grosser |first=Annika |date=30 April 2024 |title=The Cities With The Most Billionaires 2024 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/annikagrosser/2024/04/26/the-cities-with-the-most-billionaires-2024/ |access-date=8 June 2024 |work=Forbes}}</ref> the highest number of billionaires of any city in Asia, and the largest concentration of [[ultra high-net-worth individual]]s of any city in the world.<ref>{{harvnb|Liu|2018}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Frank|2018}}.</ref> Despite government efforts to reduce the growing disparity,<ref>{{harvnb|Household Income Distribution|2021|p=4}}</ref> median income for the top 10% of earners is 57 times that of the bottom 10%.<ref>{{harvnb|Hung|Ma|2023}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Household Income Distribution|2021|p=40}}</ref>