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Agriculture > products fresh vegetables, poultry, fish, pork
Big Mac Index	$1.55		[57th of 65]
Business efficiency	93.073		[2nd of 51]
Debt > External	$588,000,000,000.00		[15th of 136]
Distribution of family income > Gini index	53.3		[2nd of 43]
Economic freedom	3.55		[1st of 156]
Economy > Overview Hong Kong has a free market economy highly dependent on international trade. In 2006, the total value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, was equivalent to 400% of GDP. The territory has become increasingly integrated with mainland China over the past few years through trade, tourism, and financial links. The mainland has long been Hong Kong's largest trading partner, accounting for 46% of Hong Kong's total trade by value in 2006. As a result of China's easing of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged from 4.5 million in 2001 to 13.6 million in 2006, when they outnumbered visitors from all other countries combined. Hong Kong has also established itself as the premier stock market for Chinese firms seeking to list abroad. Bolstered by several successful initial public offerings in early 2007, by September 2007 mainland companies accounted for one-third of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and more than half of the Exchange's market capitalization. During the past decade, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has grown rapidly and now accounts for 91% of the territory's GDP. Hong Kong's natural resources are limited, and food and raw materials must be imported. GDP growth averaged a strong 5% from 1989 to 2007, despite the economy suffering two recessions during the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98 and the global downturn in 2001-02. Hong Kong continues to link its currency closely to the US dollar, maintaining an arrangement established in 1983.
Exchange rates Hong Kong dollars per US dollar - 7.788 (2004), 7.7868 (2003), 7.7989 (2002), 7.7988 (2001), 7.7912 (2000)
Exports	$345,900,000,000.00		[12th of 189]
Exports to US	$1,947,400,000.00		[30th of 224]
GDP	$189,798,100,000.00		[34th of 203]
GDP > PPP	$210,680,000,000.00		[38th of 163]
GDP > Real growth rate	6.4%		[62nd of 198]
GDP growth > annual %	7.27 annual %		[28th of 187]
GINI index	43.44		[22nd of 40]
Gross national income > constant LCU	1534509000000
Human Development Index	0.916		[22nd of 178]
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	2%		[157th of 192]
Overall productivity > PPP	$52,983.40		[19th of 49]
Public debt	12.5 % of GDP		[105th of 121]

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