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A quick Google would tell you the population of Hong Kong is 7,500,700 (2019 estimate).
by dan1234 6y ago
A quick Google would tell you the population of Hong Kong is 7,500,700 (2019 estimate).
- spuz 6y agoThe point is that from a journalistic point of view the number of people eligible for citizenship is meaningless without the context of either the population of Hong Kong or of the UK or perhaps the number of immigrants the UK typically sees from Hong Kong and other countries. It's very common in articles to see numbers that have no meaning without context. Either the context should be provided or the numbers should not be mentioned.
- spacehunt 6y agoBut even the Home Office doesn't know the exact number. They know how many current BN(O) holders there are. But they don't know how many are eligible exactly -- they have the entire list of people who have received one, but that's over 20 years ago, and a lot could have happened to them since.