SMART
LIVING

Smart Living

CURRENT STATUS

Free Wi-Fi hotspots

End Mar 2022

Over 44 600 free Wi-Fi hotspots 

Household broadband penetration rate

Dec 2021

Household broadband penetration rate 96.6%

Mobile subscriber penetration rate

Dec 2021

Mobile subscriber penetration rate 
323.4%


2020

Smart Phone Penetration Rate of persons aged 10 and over 
92.1%

Faster payment system

End Mar 2022

Faster Payment System (FPS) 

  • Over 10 million registrations
  • Average daily number of transactions
    831 000
Accident emergency

Accident & Emergency

  • 1.84 million attendances (provisional)
Specialist Outpatient

Specialist Outpatient

  • 7.96 million attendances (provisional)
Primary care

Primary Care

  • 6.08 million attendances (provisional)
Electronic Health Record Sharing System

End Apr 2022

Electronic Health Record Sharing System (eHealth)

  • 5.4 million registrations
  • 2 400 healthcare providers joined
  • 54 200 healthcare professionals have accounts

(Excluding invalid accounts, such as deceased, withdrawn or cancelled, etc.)

Population aged 65+

Population aged 65+

  • 1.33 million (18.5% of total population, excluding foreign domestic helpers) in 2019 (provisional)
  • 2.47 million (32.3% of total population, excluding foreign domestic helpers) in 2039