Country comparison: Hong Kong / Singapore

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Hong Kong and Singapore. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Region:	East Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	1,110 km²	719 km²
National language:	Chinese	Chinese
Government form:	Presidential limited democracy (special administrative region of China)	Parliamentary republic
Capital:	Hong Kong	Singapore

Population

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Population:	7,413,000	5,454,000
Inhabitants/km²:	6,678.5	7,584.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 83 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 88 years	Ø 86 years
Average age:	Ø 45.6 years	Ø 35.6 years
Birth rate:	5.80 ‰	8.50 ‰
Death rate:	6.80 ‰	5.20 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.65 ‰	4.22 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Political stability:	80	83
Civil rights:	82	89
Health:	100	79
Climate:	49	45
Cost of Living:	62	55
Popularity:	52	42

Economy

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Currency:	Hong Kong dollar (1 HKD = 100 Cents)	Singapore dollar (1 SGD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.57 %	2.30 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	77.93 %	75.03 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	21.90 %	21.00 %
Average income:	54,460 US$	64,010 US$
Corruption index:	24 (good)	17 (good)

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	369,176 M US$	49.80 M US$	396,987 M US$	72.79 M US$
Gross national product:	403,721 M US$	54.46 M US$	349,101 M US$	64.01 M US$
Exported goods:	751,260 M US$	101.34 M US$	733,782 M US$	134.55 M US$
Imported goods:	733,459 M US$	98.94 M US$	609,280 M US$	111.72 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,193 km	0.30 km	3,500 km	0.64 km
Harbours:	2,718	0.3666	3,321	0.6090
Passenger airports:	1	0.0001	2	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	41.84 bn kWh	5.64 m kWh	47.69 bn kWh	8.74 m kWh
Energy production:	35.97 bn kWh	4.85 m kWh	48.66 bn kWh	8.92 m kWh
Energy export:	1.21 bn kWh	162,550.08 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	11.62 bn kWh	1.57 m kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	43.64 m t	5,887.50 t	47.38 m t	8,687.89 t

Telecommunication

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	Hong Kong	Singapore
International dialing:	+852	+65
Internet domain:	.hk	.sg

	HKG total	HKG per 1000 inh.	SGP total	SGP per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,856,180	520	1,887,500	346
Mobile cellulars:	23,939,650	3229	8,660,700	1588
Internet server:	870,041	117	1,960,000	359
Internet users:	6,900,644	931	5,017,518	920
Broadband Internet:	2,918,734	394	1,516,100	278

Healthcare system

Details for Hong Kong and Singapore

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.89	2.49
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.32	2.31
Diabetes:	4.5 %	5.5 %
Tuberculosis:	0.57 ‰	0.48 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Hong Kong and Singapore

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Daytime temperatures:	26.2 °C	31.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	25.1 °C
Water temperature:	23.6 °C	27.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	84 %
Rain days:	8.9	11.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	5.8

Native languages

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Chinese:	94.8 %	50.8 %
English:	3.5 %	29.8 %
Malay:	n/a	11.9 %
Tamil:	n/a	4.4 %
Hakka:	1.0 %	1.2 %
Hindi:	n/a	1.2 %
other:	0.7 %	0.7 %

Religions

	Hong Kong	Singapore
Local chinese beliefs:	49.0 %	n/a
Buddhism:	21.3 %	33.9 %
Christianity:	11.8 %	18.1 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	16.4 %
Islam:	3.1 %	14.3 %
Taoism:	14.2 %	11.3 %
Hinduism:	0.5 %	5.2 %
Sikhism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	0.8 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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