Hong
Kong's median age rose to 39 from 34 between 1996 and 2006.
In
2006, about one in 10 people is 65 years or older, by 2030, the figure will
rise to one in every four.
In
2006, excluding foreign domestic helpers, there are now only 961 men to every
1000 women.
The
proportion of never married female population increased steadily, from 28.9% in
1996 to 30.7% in 2006.
In
2006, female college students outnumbered male college students by four
percent, and in recent decades, the number of females who earned more than
$30,000 per month doubled.
In
2006, 83 percent of local companies have women holding senior management
positions, ranking the fifth in the world.
In
2006, the number of first-time marriages in Hong Kong is 50,300, among them,
28,000 male Hong Kong citizens married mainland women.
In
1996, only 1800 local women married with mainland man, but in 2006, this figure
increased to 6500.
A 2005
survey showed that, 12% of adults between the ages of 18 to 34 don't decide to
have children, this figure increased almost 5 times in the past five years.
The busy Causeway Bay
In
late 2006, the Legislative Council's finance committee approved a HK$2 billion
pre-primary education voucher scheme to subsidize early childhood education.
Statistics
showed that in the first 10 months of 2006, the number of babies born to
mainland mothers in Hong Kong soared from 7,810 in 2001 to 20,577, they covered
40% of all babies born in Hong Kong during that period.
The
one-way permit scheme allows 150 mainlanders per day reunite with their
families in Hong Kong.
In
general, the 25-year-old women had a 75 percent chance of achieving pregnancy
in six months; when comes to 30-year-old, the figure drops to 45 percent, when
women is 40 years old, the chances of pregnancy decline to 25 percent.
In
2006, one of six couples has infertility problem, compared with one in seven 20
years ago.
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