Hong Kong
Constituent / territory of China.
population: Natl estimate (31 Dec 2025) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 1 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography1 metro
Hong Kong metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 1 tracked metro
🗂️ Districts
3 entries listed under Hong Kong. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- Standard Chinese
- Currency
- Hong Kong dollar ($)
- Legislature
- Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Demonym
- Hong Kong
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Driving side
- Left
- Calling code
- +852
- Internet TLD
- .hk
- ISO 3166
- HK
- Established
- 1997
- Highest point
- Tai Mo Shan (957 m (3,140 ft))
- National anthem
- March of the Volunteers
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Hong Kong
Mandarin Chinese first; 3 languages share the country; 2 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandarin Chinese | 95% | Official | CLDR, country |
| Yue Chinese | 90% | None | CLDR, country |
| English | 51% | Official | CLDR, country |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- English reach
- 51%
- Tier 3 country
- Effective languages
- 1.0
- Official-language gap
- 5%
- Mandarin Chinese is spoken by 95%
💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Hong Kong is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Hong Kong: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires73 · $421.1B combined · click to expand
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Hong Kong on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.