Dependency ratio 1996 2001 2006
Child dependency ratio
38.2 30.5 19.6
Elderly dependency ratio
10.2 10.2 9.1
Overall dependency ratio
48.4 40.7 28.6
Ageing ratio
26.7 33.6 46.3
Child dependency ratio ： Proportion of residents aged 0-14 over residents aged 15-64 Elderly dependency ratio ： Proportion of residents aged 65 and above over residents aged 15-64
Overall dependency ratio ： Proportion of residents aged 0-14 and residents aged 65 and above over residents aged 15-64 Ageing ratio ： Proportion of residents aged 65 and above over residents aged 0-14
The influx of immigrants and expatriates contributed to an increment in the number of population aged 15-64, thus reducing the proportion of the elderly population and the elderly dependency ratio. Meanwhile, the median age of the population was 35.3 in By-census 2006, an increment of 2.0 years compared with Census 2001.
The prolonged life expectancy and the relatively decreasing number of newborns over the past years have brought about an ageing population. This is reflected in the ageing ratio, a gauge of population ageing that was the proportion of the elderly population to the youth population aged 0-14, had increased from 26.7% in 1996 to 33.6% in 2001, and surged further to 46.3% in 2006. Similar to many countries and territories worldwide, Macao has encountered the aging of its population.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
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Graph 3˺Population pyramid
30000 20000 10000 0 10000 20000 30000
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84
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F M
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M By-census
1996
Census 2001
By-census 2006
Persons Persons Age-group
Age-group
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Summary Findings
1.3 Place of birth
Results of By-census 2006 showed that 236,624 (47.1%) of the resident population were born in Mainland China, with 74.1% born in Guangdong province and 15.2% in Fujian province. Meanwhile, 42.5% of the residents were born in Macao, and those born in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Portugal shared 3.7%, 2.0% and 0.3% respectively. Compared with 1996 and 2001, the proportion of residents born in Macao and Portugal continued to decline whereas the proportion of those born in Hong Kong, the Philippines and other places increased.
Table 3：Resident population by place of birth (1996-2006)
% Year
Place of birth 1996 2001 2006
Macao
44.1 43.9 42.5
Mainland China
47.1 47.4 47.1
Hong Kong
3.0 3.3 3.7
Portugal
0.9 0.4 0.3
Philippines
1.2 1.2 2.0
Others
3.6 3.8 4.5
1.4 Geographical distribution
In terms of number of residents by parish, Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish continued to lead with 201,028; however, its proportion share to the total population dropped slightly by 1.5 percentage points over 2001 to 40.0% in 2006. The Santo António parish came next, sharing 22.5% of the total. Taipa Island had the most notable population growth by 51.5%
over the last 5 years, from 9.6% in 2001 to 12.6% in 2006, which put Taipa Island to take over São Lourenço parish as the third parish having the highest number of resident population.
Compared with 1996, population size of Taipa Island soared by 2.6 times.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
%
9 . 3 1 5 . 4
1 6 . 7 1 2 . 3
1 4 . 4 1 3 . 5 1 4 . 7
8 0 . 7 8 0 . 1 7 7 . 8 7 8 . 4
7 6 . 3 7 6 . 5
7 6 . 6
2 . 8 9 6 . 4 0 . 8
1 0 . 0 4 . 4
5 . 5 9 . 3 9 . 4 1 0 . 0 8 . 7
M a r i t i m e a r e a C o l o a n e T a i p a N . S . d e F á t i m a S é S ã o L o u r e n ç o S ã o L á z a r o S a n t o A n t ó n i o
Graph 4˺Resident population by parish
（
1996-2006）
110 104 104 21
7 112 87
7
32 149 26 914
30 924 49 140 42 84148 292
30 108 34 176
40 609 169 427
180 49 9 201 02
8
17 736 41 786
63 293
2 469 2 90
4 3 29
2 2 995
1 89 8
1 79 8
0 50 000 100 000 150 000 200 000 250 000
Santo António São Lázaro São Lourenço Sé N.S. de Fátima Taipa Coloane Maritime area
By-census 1996 Census 2001 By-census 2006
Distribution by age group varied among parishes; Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish had the largest proportion of residents aged 0-14, which accounted for 16.7% of the total of this parish. Taipa Island had the lowest percentage (4.4%) of elderly population aged 65 and above;
on the contrary, Coloane Island and the São Lázaro parish had the largest proportion of elderly population among the parishes, sharing 10.0% each.
Graph 5˺Resident population by parish and age group（2006）
0-14 15-64 65 and above
Persons
Summary Findings!
1.5 Population density
Population density of Macao was 17,556 per km2 in By-census 2006.
Land area of Macao has expanded from 21.4 km2 in 1996 to 25.8 km2 in 2001 and climbed further to 28.6 km2 in 2006, at an annual growth of 2.9% during last decade, which have surpassed the population growth and causing population density to decrease by 9.3%
compared with 19,352 per km2 in 1996. However, population density in 2006 rebounded slightly by 4.1% from 16,870 per km2 in 2001, on account of rapid population increase during the last 5 years.
Santo António parish continued to be the most densely populated area with 102,615 per km2, up by 7,872 per km2 compared with 2001, while Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish had 62,821 per km2 and Taipa Island had 9,737 per km2. The lowest population density was observed in Coloane Island, with only 433 per km2.
Table 4ͧPopulation densityb (1996-2006)
Persons/km2
Year
Parish 1996 2001 2006
Total 19 352 16 870 17 556
Macao Peninsula 50 119 45 723 46 638
Santo António 100 095 94 743 102 615
São Lázaro 53 582 44 857 51 540
São Lourenço 54 600 47 601 48 292
Sé 14 337 11 785 11 944
N. S. de Fátima 54 654 60 166 62 821
Taipa 3 058 6 740 9 737
Coloane 317 382 433
Note： Population density of Taipa and Coloane Islands excluded the CoTai strip.
b Not applicable to maritime area.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
1.6 Marine population
By-census 2006 collected information on the marine population from 256 vessels that berthed in Macao’s customary water, a total of 1,798 residents were enumerated; number of the marine resident population decreased by 40.0% or 1,197 persons over By-census 1996;
however, the rate of decrease has slow down to record a 5.3% decline compared with 2001.
Among the marine population, male and female accounted for 83.4% and 16.6%
respectively, which illustrated the further increase of the male proportion that rose from 75.9% in 1996 and 77.1% in 2001. Besides, 96.4% of the marine population aged 15-64.
The majority (70.5%) of the marine population was born in Mainland China, while those born in Macao shared merely 21.4%.
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Table 5ͧMarine population (1996-2006)
Persons
Year 1996 2001 2006
Total 2 995 1 898 1 798
M 2 273 1 463 1 500
F 722 435 298
Age group
0-14 247 92 50
15-64 2 713 1 791 1 734
≥
65 35 15 14Place of birth
Macao 1 063 628 384
Mainland China 1 480 1 033 1 268
Others 452 237 146
Summary Findings!