April 2023 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 "Hong Kong's Balance of Payments, 2013 to 2022" and "The Real Estate Sector in Hong Kong".
"Hong Kong's Balance of Payments, 2013 to 2022"
The Balance of Payments (BoP) records economic transactions between Hong Kong and the rest of the world. BoP is a comprehensive set of statistics, covering trade in goods and services, investment and income. These statistics on cross-border transactions are useful for monitoring financial flows between Hong Kong and other economies, thus providing an objective basis for gauging financial soundness and policy formulation.
This feature article highlights the salient features of Hong Kong's BoP as well as the latest trends from 2013 to 2022.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Balance of Payments Branch (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 3903 6979; email: bop@censtatd.gov.hk).
"The Real Estate Sector in Hong Kong"
The performance of the real estate sector, in particular real estate development and leasing as well as real estate brokerage and agency industries, is largely underpinned by the developments in the local property market. During the period 2012 to 2021, business performance of the real estate sector somewhat fluctuated. This feature article analyses the industry structure and performance of the real estate sector in Hong Kong in this period.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Construction and Miscellaneous Services Statistics Section of the C&SD (Tel: 3903 6962; email: building@censtatd.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 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/Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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