Workforce – Asia Times

Brain-drained HK workforce marks historic decline

by Jeff Pao April 5, 2023April 7, 2023

Confronted with an emigration wave and an aging population, Hong Kong has just registered the biggest decline in its working population in decades. The workforce in the former British colony, which was handed over to Beijing in 1997, fell by 94,100, or 2.4%, to 3.87 million in 2022 from the previous year, according to the […]

Thousands of millions of migrant workers travel back to their hometown by trains for Lunar New Year from Shenzhen city. Photo: Asia Times/Lin Wanxia

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