March 2025 issue of "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" now available
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Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains two feature articles entitled "Analysis of Hong Kong's External Merchandise Trade by Mode of Transport" and "The Profile of Persons Residing in Private Elderly Homes in 2024".
"Analysis of Hong Kong's External Merchandise Trade by Mode of Transport"
External merchandise trade is one of the important economic activities in Hong Kong. Goods are brought into or out of Hong Kong by various means of transport. In terms of the value of goods, air and land are the two main modes of transport of Hong Kong's external merchandise trade, together accounting for 88.4% of Hong Kong’s total value of trade in goods in 2024. Ocean and river accounted for 9.7% and 1.5% respectively.
This feature article analyses the performance and characteristics of Hong Kong's external merchandise trade by mode of transport during the period from 2014 to 2024.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Trade Analysis Section of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4914; email: trade@censtatd.gov.hk).
"The Profile of Persons Residing in Private Elderly Homes in 2024"
A survey was conducted by the C&SD during July to August 2024 to collect the age-sex profile of persons residing in private elderly homes (PEH). Results of the survey together with some other administrative records are used in the General Household Survey to estimate the age-sex profile of the land-based non-institutional population of Hong Kong. This feature article gives a brief account of the results of the 2024 round of the Annual Survey on Profile of Inmates of PEH.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the General Household Survey Section (3) of the C&SD (Tel: 2887 5208; email: ghs@censtatd.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 130 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1010002&scode=460).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Dissemination Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).
Ends/Monday, March 17, 2025
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