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News: Poor population reached 1.491 million in 2019, poverty rate reached 21.4% and hit a new high

2020-12-23T08:29:13.662Z


The government announced today (23) the poverty report. According to the news, the poor population in Hong Kong reached 1.491 million last year, and the poverty rate reached 21.4%. This is an increase of 85,000 compared with the 1.406 million in the previous year, which means that Hong Kong has a population of approximately 7.52 million in 2019.


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Written by: Huang Yongyu

2020-12-23 16:16

Last update date: 2020-12-23 16:16

The government announced today (23) the poverty report. According to the news, the poor population in Hong Kong reached 1.491 million last year, and the poverty rate reached 21.4%. This is an increase of 85,000 from the 1.406 million in the previous year. That is to say, Hong Kong’s population of approximately 7.52 million in 2019, One out of every five people is poor.

As for the government’s policy intervention, the number of poor people is 1.098 million, and the poverty rate is 15.8%, which is an increase of 74,000 from the 1.024 million poor people in the previous year.

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