Sex
Female
37.3%
Male
62.7%
← Statistics
GDP (current US$)427,310,315,921.99 USD2025 GDP per capita (current US$)56,983.07 USD2025 Unemployment (% of labour force)2.80 %2025 Personal remittances received (US$)457,568,834.40 USD2024 Personal remittances received (% of GDP)0.11 %2024
Population, total7,498,900.00 people2025 Population density7,177.24 people/km22023
Net migration17,863.00 people2025 International migrant stock, total3,063,318.00 people2024 International migrant stock (% of population)41.30 %2024
Asylum decisions - recognised10.00 people2019 Asylum decisions - rejected5.00 people2015 Asylum decisions - otherwise closed155.00 people2014 Asylum decisions - total10.00 people2019
Returned refugees5.00 people2025 Naturalisations5.00 people2003
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)85.39 years2024 Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)91.68 %2024
Sources & notes
Country profile
Hong Kong SAR, China
HK · HKG · East Asia & PacificA consolidated migration profile for Hong Kong SAR, China: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
Capital—
RegionEast Asia & Pacific
Subregion—
Population7,498,900
Refugees hosted
236
People protected here
Refugees from here
—
Fled abroad
Migrants living here
3,063,318
Foreign-born stock
Net migration
17,863
Net inflow
Asylum-seekers
—
Awaiting a decision
Reporting year
2025
Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025
Key migration numbers
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
2025Reporting year
236Refugees hosted
No data available
Asylum-seekers
No data available
Applications (year)Migration balance
Annual estimatesIncoming vs outgoing
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Net migration (year)17,863Net inflow
Migrants living here3,063,318Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants ProjectHistorical series
Statistics
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
Population profileSex, age, religion & more
Sex, age, religion & more
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Religion
National sharesReligious make-up over time
No religion timeline is recorded for this country yet. See the Religion impact page for the full picture.
Places of worship
Recorded countsPlaces of worship over time
No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.
See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
Age
0-4
5.5%
12-17
11.0%
18-59
66.9%
5-11
16.5%
Sex
Female
35.4%
Male
64.6%
Age
0-4
8.8%
12-17
14.2%
18-59
66.2%
5-11
10.8%
Sex
Female
39.9%
Male
60.1%
Age
0-4
9.6%
12-17
14.3%
18-59
59.1%
5-11
16.9%
Sex
Female
37.2%
Male
62.8%
Age
0-4
6.0%
12-17
10.2%
18-59
68.1%
5-11
15.8%
Sex
Female
34.7%
Male
65.3%
Age
0-4
7.7%
12-17
4.8%
18-59
72.0%
5-11
15.5%
Sex
Female
40.8%
Male
59.2%
Age
0-4
4.1%
12-17
7.3%
18-59
69.0%
5-11
19.6%
Sex
Female
41.4%
Male
58.6%
Age
0-4
3.9%
12-17
11.7%
18-59
71.1%
5-11
13.3%
Sex
Female
39.8%
Male
60.2%
Sex
Female
45.6%
Male
54.4%
Age
12-17
10.0%
18-59
67.8%
5-11
22.2%
Sex
Female
39.6%
Male
60.4%
Age
0-4
5.5%
12-17
12.1%
18-59
67.0%
5-11
15.4%
Sex
Female
43.0%
Male
57.0%
Age
0-4
4.2%
12-17
1.6%
18-59
90.1%
5-11
3.7%
60+
0.4%
Sex
Female
43.7%
Male
55.9%
Age
0-4
4.2%
12-17
2.2%
18-59
88.9%
5-11
4.1%
60+
0.2%
Sex
Female
43.7%
Male
56.3%
Age
0-4
4.9%
12-17
2.0%
18-59
88.9%
5-11
4.2%
Sex
Female
48.2%
Male
51.8%
Age
0-4
6.5%
12-17
4.2%
18-59
86.8%
5-11
2.4%
Sex
Female
44.0%
Male
56.0%
Age
0-4
5.6%
12-17
8.5%
18-59
81.0%
5-11
5.0%
Sex
Female
34.8%
Male
65.2%
Age
0-4
6.3%
12-17
7.7%
18-59
81.3%
5-11
4.7%
Sex
Female
39.8%
Male
60.2%
Age
0-4
2.7%
12-17
1.2%
18-59
90.6%
5-11
5.5%
Sex
Female
29.3%
Male
70.7%
Age
0-4
5.5%
12-17
0.4%
18-59
93.2%
5-11
0.8%
Sex
Female
16.7%
Male
83.3%
Age
0-4
1.4%
12-17
1.1%
18-59
96.5%
5-11
1.1%
Sex
Female
24.0%
Male
76.0%
Age
0-4
0.3%
12-17
0.6%
18-59
56.7%
5-11
0.3%
Sex
Female
32.1%
Male
67.9%
Age
0-4
1.1%
12-17
0.4%
18-59
37.0%
5-11
1.0%
Sex
Female
0.4%
Male
1.6%
Unknown
98.0%
Age
0-4
0.2%
18-59
1.6%
5-11
0.2%
Sex
Female
2.6%
Male
10.3%
Unknown
87.1%
Age
0-4
1.0%
18-59
11.6%
5-11
0.2%
Sex
Female
2.7%
Male
13.7%
Unknown
83.6%
Age
0-4
0.9%
12-17
0.8%
18-59
14.4%
5-11
0.3%
Sex
Female
1.5%
Male
25.5%
Unknown
73.0%
Age
18-59
26.3%
5-11
0.7%
Country contextNational indicators
National indicators
Economy
Population
Migration
Asylum decisions
Durable solutions
Other
ContextMigration & quality of life
Migration & quality of life
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
Economy
World BankGross domestic product
GDP (current US$)
$427.31B
Reported 2025
GDP per capita (current US$)
$56,983
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
Public safetyRecorded crime
Not migrant offending
Recorded crime
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.32 | |
| Homicide | 0.38 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.32 | |
| Homicide | 0.40 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.27 | |
| Homicide | 0.31 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.22 | |
| Homicide | 0.29 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.32 | |
| Homicide | 0.32 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.39 | |
| Homicide | 0.64 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.37 | |
| Homicide | 0.32 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.27 | |
| Homicide | 0.38 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.22 | |
| Homicide | 0.30 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.33 | |
| Homicide | 0.37 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.94 | |
| Homicide | 0.85 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.31 | |
| Homicide | 0.37 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.23 | |
| Homicide | 0.24 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.50 | |
| Homicide | 0.49 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.66 | |
| Homicide | 0.67 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.67 | |
| Homicide | 0.51 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.30 | |
| Homicide | 0.26 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.49 | |
| Homicide | 0.51 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.36 | |
| Homicide | 0.49 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.56 | |
| Homicide | 0.65 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| 0.62 | |
| Homicide | 0.76 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.01 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.97 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.64 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.95 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.98 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.59 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.22 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.18 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.59 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.46 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.88 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.63 |
| Crime | Rate / 100k |
|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.46 |
Public expenditureExpenses
Expenses
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
| Year | Amount (USD) | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | $13,200,000 | ODA received |
| 1995 | $17,730,000 | ODA received |
| 1994 | $26,870,001 | ODA received |
| 1993 | $30,270,000 | ODA received |
| 1992 | $-39,000,000 | ODA received |
| 1991 | $36,070,000 | ODA received |
| 1990 | $38,160,000 | ODA received |
| 1989 | $40,619,999 | ODA received |
| 1988 | $22,100,000 | ODA received |
| 1987 | $19,389,999 | ODA received |
| 1986 | $18,469,999 | ODA received |
| 1985 | $20,480,000 | ODA received |
| 1984 | $13,750,000 | ODA received |
| 1983 | $8,780,000 | ODA received |
| 1982 | $7,930,000 | ODA received |
| 1981 | $9,520,000 | ODA received |
| 1980 | $10,890,000 | ODA received |
| 1979 | $11,910,000 | ODA received |
| 1978 | $2,350,000 | ODA received |
| 1977 | $2,070,000 | ODA received |
| 1976 | $2,680,000 | ODA received |
| 1975 | $-1,140,000 | ODA received |
| 1974 | $1,030,000 | ODA received |
| 1973 | $910,000 | ODA received |
| 1972 | $2,890,000 | ODA received |
| 1971 | $3,630,000 | ODA received |
| 1970 | $1,410,000 | ODA received |
| 1969 | $1,290,000 | ODA received |
| 1968 | $1,320,000 | ODA received |
| 1967 | $2,650,000 | ODA received |
| 1966 | $2,470,000 | ODA received |
| 1965 | $4,250,000 | ODA received |
| 1964 | $280,000 | ODA received |
| 1963 | $5,450,000 | ODA received |
| 1962 | $1,910,000 | ODA received |
| 1961 | $5,120,000 | ODA received |
| 1960 | $5,830,000 | ODA received |
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.