Crowded Hong Kong’s Population Grows

There’s less and less elbow room in one of the world’s most crowded cities.

The population of Hong Kong reached an estimated 6,189,800 at the end of June, a jump of 128,400 people, or 2.1 percent, in a year, the government said Thursday.

There were 41,100 more births than deaths between mid-1994 and mid-1995, accounting for 32 percent of the population growth, a government statement said. In the same period, there was a net inflow of 87,300 people into the colony.

Hong Kong has an average 14,310 people packed into each of its 30.7 square miles. The world’s most densely populated city, Lagos, Nigeria, has about 10 times that number.