According to a survey by the Hong Kong Institute of Personnel Management, a local government agency, in 1992 the number of Hong Kong's returnees was about 10,000, 16 % of the total number of those who emigrated that same year, and more than twice as many returnees as the year before. In 1993, the 20,000 returnees equaled 30 % of the number of emigrants.
根據當地官方機構「香港人事管理學會」的調查，一九九二年回流的香港移民，佔當年移出人數的百分之十六（大約是一萬人），比前一年成長了一倍多；到了一九九三年，回流者佔移民人數的三成（將近兩萬人）。