Country or area · Eastern Asia · Asia · UN WPP 2024

Hong Kong population

UN name: China, Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong population now

7,370,358

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 5.8–9.2 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 7,442,735

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 7.37860 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 5.8–9.2 million
Median age: 48.9
Aged 65+: 24.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

HKG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Hong Kong in numbers

7,442,735 people lived in Hong Kong in mid-2023: 0.09% of the world's people, and the 104th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 3.8 times its 1950 population of 2.0 million.

Its population peaked in 2020 at 7.5 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 2.1 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 0 to 16.1 million.

2021 was the last year births kept up with deaths. Every year since has had more deaths than births, as does every projected year to 2100.

The median age was 23.8 in 1950 and 47.2 in 2023; the projection has 73.4 in 2100. 21.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 61.0% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2014 at 5.4 million; in 2023 it was 5.0 million.

Its place in the world by population: 104th in 2023, 119th in 2050, 143rd in 2100. It is overtaken by Turkmenistan in 2024, Libya in 2025 and Kyrgyzstan in 2026.

Population, mid-2023: 7,442,735
Rank by population, 2023: 104 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.09%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.31% · −23,180 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 7,088
Land area, 2023: 1,050 km²
Births, 2023: 41,294
Deaths, 2023: 57,190
Net migration, 2023: −3,427
Children per woman, 2023: 0.72
Median age, 2023: 47.2 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 85.5 years
In a city, 2025: 96 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 1,978,342
Projected, mid-2050: 6,090,619
Projected, mid-2100: 2,080,290

HKG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Hong Kong, 1950–2100

Hong Kong: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	1,933,854		78,773	21,025	4.25	57.8
1951	estimate	2,022,831		82,945	20,520	4.35	58.7
1952	estimate	2,116,130		86,048	20,386	4.39	59.8
1953	estimate	2,213,467		88,980	20,113	4.43	60.9
1954	estimate	2,315,190		91,696	19,786	4.46	61.9
1955	estimate	2,422,040		95,393	19,702	4.55	62.8
1956	estimate	2,534,355		98,928	19,777	4.64	63.5
1957	estimate	2,654,159		102,951	20,007	4.76	64.0
1958	estimate	2,780,208		106,582	20,141	4.88	64.7
1959	estimate	2,910,793		109,931	20,157	5.00	65.4
1960	estimate	3,038,295		112,252	19,960	5.08	66.2
1961	estimate	3,151,386		114,219	19,661	5.17	66.9
1962	estimate	3,001,929		99,824	17,852	5.18	67.3
1963	estimate	2,776,240		82,570	14,924	5.15	68.0
1964	estimate	2,548,962		66,266	12,131	5.08	68.6
1965	estimate	3,723,095		153,353	19,911	4.92	68.9
1966	estimate	3,987,746		149,818	20,307	4.46	69.3
1967	estimate	4,042,857		129,818	19,661	4.12	69.9
1968	estimate	2,905,399		45,416	12,298	3.78	70.7
1969	estimate	3,225,255		54,154	14,433	3.60	71.0
1970	estimate	3,565,786		63,000	17,200	3.39	71.3
1971	estimate	3,914,046		76,789	20,496	3.40	71.5
1972	estimate	4,064,426		79,970	21,663	3.25	71.7
1973	estimate	4,169,819		82,290	21,866	3.13	72.2
1974	estimate	4,276,674		83,670	22,379	2.95	72.5
1975	estimate	4,384,771		80,164	22,935	2.63	72.8
1976	estimate	4,491,985		79,325	23,657	2.42	73.0
1977	estimate	4,598,279		80,842	24,357	2.31	73.3
1978	estimate	4,702,702		81,951	25,063	2.21	73.6
1979	estimate	4,805,435		83,238	25,666	2.12	73.9
1980	estimate	4,909,906		86,309	26,266	2.06	74.3
1981	estimate	5,015,062		86,893	26,847	1.95	74.6
1982	estimate	5,106,849		87,464	27,341	1.87	74.9
1983	estimate	5,193,339		85,753	27,691	1.75	75.3
1984	estimate	5,276,874		80,730	28,033	1.58	75.7
1985	estimate	5,355,084		79,275	27,803	1.50	76.3
1986	estimate	5,431,159		75,352	27,936	1.39	76.7
1987	estimate	5,471,707		73,775	28,061	1.34	77.1
1988	estimate	5,501,036		78,395	29,021	1.40	77.1
1989	estimate	5,528,761		74,013	29,598	1.32	77.2
1990	estimate	5,552,387		72,435	29,933	1.28	77.5
1991	estimate	5,568,807		73,047	30,138	1.30	77.7
1992	estimate	5,687,381		77,328	31,202	1.36	78.0
1993	estimate	5,831,732		78,412	32,418	1.36	78.3
1994	estimate	5,973,294		80,434	33,557	1.37	78.7
1995	estimate	6,111,229		78,129	34,734	1.30	79.1
1996	estimate	6,242,978		73,219	36,154	1.20	79.5
1997	estimate	6,361,950		68,688	36,530	1.12	79.7
1998	estimate	6,471,397		62,745	36,442	1.02	80.1
1999	estimate	6,571,272		60,871	36,301	0.99	80.4
2000	estimate	6,661,777		63,229	36,208	1.03	80.7
2001	estimate	6,747,551		58,283	36,263	0.94	81.0
2002	estimate	6,800,926		57,134	37,069	0.93	81.2
2003	estimate	6,841,891		54,910	38,626	0.90	81.1
2004	estimate	6,875,922		55,661	39,354	0.92	81.5
2005	estimate	6,900,405		57,847	40,196	0.96	81.7
2006	estimate	6,916,567		59,807	40,799	0.99	82.0
2007	estimate	6,945,613		62,671	41,755	1.03	82.1
2008	estimate	6,997,077		64,513	42,740	1.05	82.3
2009	estimate	7,044,300		64,744	43,489	1.05	82.6
2010	estimate	7,084,633		69,810	44,159	1.12	82.9
2011	estimate	7,118,601		71,807	44,720	1.14	83.2
2012	estimate	7,167,338		77,410	45,522	1.21	83.4
2013	estimate	7,234,784		81,387	46,111	1.26	83.7
2014	estimate	7,293,886		77,714	46,925	1.20	83.9
2015	estimate	7,345,115		79,755	47,727	1.23	84.2
2016	estimate	7,387,704		78,756	48,404	1.21	84.4
2017	estimate	7,428,315		74,005	48,818	1.14	84.7
2018	estimate	7,461,468		69,814	49,138	1.09	85.0
2019	estimate	7,480,919		66,699	49,743	1.05	85.3
2020	estimate	7,490,707		55,485	54,624	0.89	84.7
2021	estimate	7,489,764		47,908	54,800	0.78	85.1
2022	estimate	7,479,439		42,320	65,937	0.71	83.5
2023	estimate	7,452,391		41,294	57,190	0.72	85.5
2024	estimate	7,433,078		40,219	57,277	0.73	85.6
2025	projection	7,396,741	6.4–8.3 million	38,963	58,163	0.73	85.8
2026	projection	7,395,411	6.0–8.8 million	38,112	59,151	0.75	85.9
2027	projection	7,361,793	5.8–9.2 million	36,746	60,227	0.76	86.0
2028	projection	7,348,288	5.7–9.5 million	35,596	61,327	0.77	86.2
2029	projection	7,301,514	5.6–9.8 million	33,916	62,508	0.78	86.3
2030	projection	7,271,722	5.5–10.2 million	32,557	63,762	0.79	86.4
2031	projection	7,233,572	5.4–10.5 million	31,031	65,040	0.80	86.6
2032	projection	7,189,876	5.3–10.9 million	29,437	66,368	0.81	86.7
2033	projection	7,154,466	5.2–11.3 million	28,097	67,809	0.82	86.8
2034	projection	7,115,641	5.2–11.7 million	26,823	69,336	0.82	87.0
2035	projection	7,084,327	5.1–11.7 million	25,852	70,945	0.83	87.1
2036	projection	7,018,925	5.0–12.0 million	24,688	72,669	0.84	87.3
2037	projection	6,967,158	4.9–11.9 million	23,959	74,444	0.85	87.4
2038	projection	6,939,096	4.8–12.2 million	23,638	76,395	0.86	87.5
2039	projection	6,875,544	4.7–12.1 million	23,248	78,328	0.87	87.7
2040	projection	6,847,050	4.7–12.3 million	23,366	80,483	0.88	87.8
2041	projection	6,786,086	4.5–12.6 million	23,245	82,600	0.89	87.9
2042	projection	6,723,591	4.4–12.9 million	23,220	84,721	0.90	88.0
2043	projection	6,650,619	4.3–13.0 million	23,079	86,751	0.91	88.2
2044	projection	6,595,028	4.2–13.2 million	23,135	88,824	0.92	88.3
2045	projection	6,533,180	4.1–13.2 million	23,117	90,956	0.92	88.5
2046	projection	6,464,200	4.0–13.2 million	22,926	92,900	0.93	88.6
2047	projection	6,391,676	4.0–13.5 million	22,645	94,764	0.94	88.7
2048	projection	6,293,804	3.8–13.6 million	21,989	96,415	0.95	88.8
2049	projection	6,217,960	3.7–13.4 million	21,491	97,945	0.95	89.0
2050	projection	6,130,903	3.6–13.5 million	20,810	99,275	0.96	89.1
2051	projection	6,050,335	3.5–13.9 million	20,233	100,439	0.97	89.2
2052	projection	5,960,131	3.4–13.9 million	19,420	101,465	0.98	89.3
2053	projection	5,873,483	3.3–14.0 million	18,625	102,285	0.98	89.5
2054	projection	5,789,445	3.2–14.0 million	17,922	103,018	0.99	89.6
2055	projection	5,704,675	3.1–14.0 million	17,250	103,566	0.99	89.7
2056	projection	5,615,539	3.0–14.3 million	16,584	103,906	1.00	89.8
2057	projection	5,523,368	2.9–14.1 million	15,927	104,120	1.01	89.9
2058	projection	5,429,676	2.8–14.3 million	15,283	104,056	1.01	90.1
2059	projection	5,334,503	2.6–14.4 million	14,669	103,984	1.02	90.2
2060	projection	5,244,451	2.6–14.5 million	14,146	103,835	1.02	90.3
2061	projection	5,154,276	2.4–14.4 million	13,661	103,508	1.03	90.4
2062	projection	5,061,472	2.3–14.2 million	13,141	103,144	1.04	90.5
2063	projection	4,981,411	2.2–14.3 million	12,826	102,714	1.04	90.6
2064	projection	4,902,153	2.1–14.7 million	12,556	102,277	1.05	90.7
2065	projection	4,812,962	2.0–14.4 million	12,212	101,895	1.05	90.8
2066	projection	4,722,629	1.9–14.8 million	11,856	101,531	1.06	91.0
2067	projection	4,634,756	1.8–15.0 million	11,529	101,171	1.07	91.1
2068	projection	4,542,668	1.7–15.6 million	11,172	100,787	1.07	91.2
2069	projection	4,453,930	1.6–15.5 million	10,885	100,379	1.08	91.3
2070	projection	4,369,918	1.5–15.7 million	10,704	100,061	1.08	91.4
2071	projection	4,280,260	1.4–15.4 million	10,456	99,684	1.08	91.5
2072	projection	4,194,309	1.3–15.5 million	10,328	99,248	1.09	91.6
2073	projection	4,104,537	1.2–15.6 million	10,158	98,796	1.10	91.7
2074	projection	4,014,064	1.1–15.5 million	9,992	98,358	1.10	91.8
2075	projection	3,925,636	1.0–15.9 million	9,885	97,873	1.11	91.9
2076	projection	3,836,975	0.8–15.9 million	9,765	97,339	1.11	92.0
2077	projection	3,749,765	0.8–16.3 million	9,655	96,732	1.12	92.1
2078	projection	3,654,157	0.7–15.8 million	9,409	96,175	1.12	92.2
2079	projection	3,574,505	0.7–15.7 million	9,392	95,479	1.13	92.3
2080	projection	3,489,726	0.6–15.6 million	9,281	94,521	1.13	92.4
2081	projection	3,406,698	0.5–15.7 million	9,156	93,444	1.13	92.5
2082	projection	3,330,456	0.4–15.5 million	9,141	92,246	1.14	92.6
2083	projection	3,254,796	0.3–15.6 million	9,078	90,945	1.14	92.7
2084	projection	3,174,972	0.2–15.7 million	8,939	89,412	1.15	92.8
2085	projection	3,091,917	0.2–16.2 million	8,701	87,852	1.15	92.9
2086	projection	3,010,003	0.2–16.6 million	8,443	86,150	1.15	93.0
2087	projection	2,931,310	0.1–16.7 million	8,213	84,317	1.16	93.1
2088	projection	2,854,600	0.1–16.4 million	7,977	82,418	1.16	93.2
2089	projection	2,783,832	0.0–16.1 million	7,791	80,353	1.16	93.3
2090	projection	2,710,845	0.0–15.9 million	7,540	78,235	1.16	93.4
2091	projection	2,639,960	0.0–16.4 million	7,299	75,949	1.17	93.5
2092	projection	2,573,327	0.0–16.7 million	7,099	73,728	1.17	93.6
2093	projection	2,512,767	0.0–16.4 million	6,974	71,446	1.17	93.7
2094	projection	2,450,803	0.0–15.9 million	6,792	69,032	1.18	93.8
2095	projection	2,385,282	0.0–15.7 million	6,529	66,726	1.18	93.9
2096	projection	2,325,474	0.0–15.9 million	6,338	64,360	1.18	94.0
2097	projection	2,267,604	0.0–16.1 million	6,155	62,115	1.19	94.1
2098	projection	2,210,326	0.0–16.3 million	5,953	59,989	1.19	94.2
2099	projection	2,159,230	0.0–16.2 million	5,837	57,972	1.19	94.3
2100	projection	2,106,152	0.0–16.1 million	5,667	56,085	1.20	94.4

Show the numbers: Hong Kong, mid-2026, by single year of age

Hong Kong: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	19,986	18,571
1	20,512	19,063
2	20,985	19,474
3	21,499	19,956
4	23,189	21,522
5	23,075	21,764
6	22,713	21,796
7	24,428	23,651
8	25,929	25,258
9	27,274	26,475
10	27,676	26,952
11	27,772	27,344
12	28,397	28,242
13	30,654	30,138
14	33,055	31,862
15	31,824	30,572
16	28,298	27,295
17	27,825	26,814
18	29,458	28,362
19	28,845	27,742
20	26,575	25,600
21	24,734	24,266
22	23,936	24,139
23	24,404	24,691
24	26,154	25,898
25	29,048	28,294
26	31,449	31,060
27	32,746	33,740
28	35,482	37,364
29	39,260	41,800
30	41,972	46,278
31	44,061	49,956
32	45,280	52,010
33	45,508	53,376
34	45,524	55,460
35	45,438	58,115
36	45,549	60,597
37	46,311	62,906
38	46,439	64,393
39	45,214	65,794
40	44,669	68,447
41	44,915	70,134
42	45,328	71,400
43	46,466	73,922
44	47,290	75,322
45	46,912	74,904
46	45,912	73,334
47	45,090	70,724
48	44,729	68,634
49	44,534	67,432
50	44,677	66,530
51	45,754	67,278
52	47,046	69,172
53	47,580	69,622
54	47,438	68,516
55	46,994	67,588
56	46,740	66,827
57	47,061	65,723
58	47,655	64,179
59	48,261	62,659
60	49,934	63,568
61	52,746	66,402
62	55,693	69,498
63	57,978	71,162
64	57,967	68,182
65	56,996	63,654
66	56,642	61,353
67	56,302	60,423
68	55,804	60,014
69	53,894	58,424
70	51,073	55,616
71	48,373	52,968
72	45,022	49,991
73	41,658	46,478
74	39,296	43,571
75	37,544	41,378
76	36,069	39,420
77	33,860	36,904
78	30,246	33,306
79	25,848	28,967
80	20,952	23,873
81	17,108	19,524
82	15,671	17,393
83	14,828	16,084
84	13,516	14,696
85	12,816	14,086
86	12,554	14,242
87	11,962	14,443
88	11,029	14,212
89	9,699	13,230
90	8,180	11,919
91	6,928	10,768
92	6,000	9,740
93	5,201	8,748
94	4,192	7,558
95	3,032	6,174
96	2,135	4,955
97	1,532	3,989
98	1,106	3,188
99	816	2,508
100+	2,006	7,319

HKG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Hong Kong, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

HKG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Hong Kong

Hong Kong had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2014: 5,387,850 people aged 15–64, against 5,035,440 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

16 children

32 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 48 years: 1950–1951 and 1979–2024.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

HKG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Hong Kong, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Hong Kong loses 4,303 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 0–4, at 2,729 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 1,120,002 (1964) and the most it lost was 1,248,193 (1967).

In 2024, 3,063,318 people living in Hong Kong had been born in another country, 41 of every 100 people there, against 40 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

HKG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Hong Kong

Of every 100 babies born in Hong Kong in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 59 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 40 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 6 under 20 and 14 aged 35 or older.

1950
6 · 80 · 14

2023
1 · 59 · 40

2050 · projected
0 · 58 · 42

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 41,294
Average age when women have a baby: 32.9 years; 29.1 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 1; 46 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Hong Kong by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	14	13	12	1	1	0
15–19	4,568	4,404	1,072	156	106	41
20–24	22,134	24,621	7,868	1,126	667	226
25–29	25,306	31,588	18,877	6,426	2,901	825
30–34	15,766	11,309	22,525	16,966	8,416	2,207
35–39	7,968	5,810	11,217	13,268	7,132	1,848
40–44	2,793	2,137	1,596	3,134	1,473	477
45–49	217	266	59	217	114	43
50–54	7	16	3	0	0	0
All babies	78,773	80,164	63,229	41,294	20,810	5,667

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

HKG · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Hong Kong

At the end of 2025, Hong Kong was hosting 236 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad236
Hong Kong nationals abroad656

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 20 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Hong Kong living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 135 people from Hong Kong asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Hong Kong whose claims were decided that year, 17 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

HKG · of every 100 people

How people live in Hong Kong

Of every 100 people in Hong Kong in 2025, 96 lived in a city, 3 in a town or suburb and 1 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 4.2 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

HKG · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Hong Kong went in school

Of every 100 adults in Hong Kong in 2020, 4 never went to school and 59 finished upper secondary or went further.

4 never went to school 7 some primary 14 finished primary 16 finished lower secondary 28 finished upper secondary 31 studied after school

The young went further: 0 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 4.8 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 0 against 2).

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

HKG · cities · 2025

Cities in Hong Kong

Hong Kong had 6 cities in 2025, home to 7.1 million people. The largest, Hong Kong, holds 64 of every 100 people in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong4,749,543
Tuen Mun1,053,083
Sha Tin674,476
Fanling304,190
Tai Po276,367
Tung Chung68,589

How to read this: one bar for each of the 6 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Hong Kong are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.