In the 1960s, Hong Kong was among the world’s ‘hardest places’ to count people

South China Morning Post 2020-02-18

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As Hong Kong’s Census and Statistics Department released 2019 year-end population figures on February 18, 2020, let’s wind back the clock more than half a century to 1961 for a look at how the former British colony used to count its people.
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