{"id":175729,"date":"2026-08-20T06:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=175729"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:43:39","slug":"hk-population-rises-to-7-52m-as-of-mid-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=175729","title":{"rendered":"HK population rises to 7.52m as of mid-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1866589_1_M_20260818170112.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Hong Kong&rsquo;s population has seen a modest uptick, according to the latest provisional figures from the Census and Statistics Department on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As of mid-2026, the city&rsquo;s population was estimated to be 7,518,300, marking a 0.3 percent increase &ndash; or roughly 19,400 people &ndash; compared with the 7,498,900 recorded in mid-2025&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1866589-20260818.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&rsquo;s population has seen a modest uptick,  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}