Hong Kong economy grows 3.5% in 2025, beating earlier forecasts

Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 3.5 per cent in 2025, marking the city’s third consecutive year of growth and surpassing an earlier forecast of 3.2 per cent. Advance estimates released by the Census and Statistics Department on Friday also showed gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter increased by 3.8 per cent compared with the previous year. Hong Kong’s GDP expanded by at least 3 per cent in each of the first three quarters of 2025, rising 3 per cent year on year in the first...