Maybe Hanna-Barbera had it right. There are officially three levels of pedestrian traffic. This is, of course, not at all like mainland China. I saw a Rolls showroom with a Silver Cloud in the window. And the price of dining in the hotel and the shopping mall across the street seems to indicate that everyone in town can afford a Rolls.
Accurate statistics are hard to come by.
An article in this morning's HK Standard indicates that the last of the Vietnamese boat people have been settled. With refugees, closed borders on the People's Republic of China as tight as our border with Mexico, there's no telling how many souls occupy the area. If China is an emerging market, Hong Kong is the rope up which the mainland is climbing. As China climbs up, capital flows down, and by the look of the harbor and city, there's a lot of capital flowing. The downtown streets are narrow, so steep the sidewalks become stairs, and the streets are overhung with signage in Chinese and English.