• Hong Kong’s birth rate continues to tank, with current projections putting the 2025 figure on target to be the lowest since the end of World War 2.
Not as a percentage of current population or anything - the literal number of babies born in a calendar year.
Joel found this chart below today, showing 32k will be the lowest on record since 1947, surpassing (underpassing?) the 32,950 births in 2022.
Let’s pick a random year. 1965. 20 years after the end of the war, so birth rates were high but not at their peak. 102,195 births. Over three times what is expected in 2025. And Hong Kong’s population in 1965? 3.7 million, slightly less than half of today’s population.
• Justice Ribeiro has been extended on the bench of the CFA for at least another three years, even though he is older than the official retirement age for Hong Kong judges.
• Oh look, another typhoon.
The 8am update had the typhoon entering the 400km radius of HK, but the 2pm one shows it won’t. Find out why after this picture.
Fortunately for us this typhoon is going to smash into the north east monsoon and get pushed away.
But the combination of the two events is going to drop the temperature mid-next week, where we will see overnight minimums of between 18°C to 21°C.
