Numbers of Licensed Banks, Bank Branches, and Bank Offices in Hong Kong

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API URL:

API Data Enquiry
Output Fields (JSON) Swagger Format
 
Name Type Unit Of Measure Description
Lb_yr Date Year
Lb_brnum_a Number   No. of Licensed Banks 
Lb_bran_a Number No. of Branches 
Lb_broff_a Number Total Offices 
Footnotes
Numbers of Licensed Banks, Bank Branches, and Bank Offices in Hong Kong
Period: 1954-2002
Unit: HKD Million 
Source: Yu-ching Jao (1974), Banking and Currency in Hong Kong-A Study of Postwar Financial Development:
Table 2.1. The data for Jao (1974) is from the Exchange Fund at that time.
Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics.
Note: In most cases, the number of bank offices would be equal to the sum of the number of licensed banks and the number of bank offices. The exceptions are due to the operational definitions of the data.
Javascript Example
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.hkma.gov.hk/public/hkimr/lic-bank-branches-and-offices?offset=0',
dataType:'json',
success:function(data){
alert('results found:'+ data.result.datasize)
}
});
 
Python Example
import urllib.request
url = 'https://api.hkma.gov.hk/public/hkimr/lic-bank-branches-and-offices?offset=0'
with urllib.request.urlopen (url) as req:
print (req.read())