The resident population of Macao totaled a record 525,500 at the end of the first half of this year, according to official statistics issued Monday.
The figures from the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that some 993 live births were logged in the second quarter, seeing a year-on-year rise of 6.6 percent.
Macao's annual rate of population growth in the past five years averaged 2.9 percent, according to official statistics released earlier.
(Xinhua News Agency August 28, 2007)
