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In 2009, Hong Kong's real economic growth fell by 2.8% as a result of the Great Recession. [33] By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York City and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput. Hong Kong is a full Member of the World Trade Organization. [34]
This is a list of gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) for the latest year. [1] All sovereign states with United Nations membership and territory in Asia or Oceania are included on the list apart from the transcontinental countries which are included in the lists for Europe (when they are current or suspended members of the Council of Europe) or Africa in the case of ...
The pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its former chief editors Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam become the first defendants to be convicted of sedition in Hong Kong since its handover to China in 1997, [21] which Chung sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment on 26 September.
Hong Kong's economy contracted 1.4% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, advance government data showed on Monday, as exports and investments remained sluggish, and COVID-19 ...
The property giant Evergrande, whose default in late 2021 helped trigger the crisis, has been ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court. Other Chinese developers are facing their own liquidation ...
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
Hong Kong's economy contracted 1.3% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, following a weak performance in external trade during the period.
The figures are from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database, unless otherwise specified. [1] This list is not to be confused with the list of countries by real GDP per capita growth, which is the percentage change of GDP per person taking into account the changing population of the country.