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Citing that Singapore's 900,000 Baby Boomers would comprise a quarter of the citizen population by 2030 and that its workforce would shrink "from 2020 onwards", the White Paper projected that by 2030, Singapore's "total population could range between 6.5 and 6.9 million", with resident population between 4.2 and 4.4 million and citizen ...
Citizens reacted to the PWP with shock and anger, [8] [9] and this has led to the largest public protest ever organized in Singapore's history. [10] [2] [11]Many Singaporeans have attributed the government's population and immigration policy as the cause of overcrowding and falling reliability of its public transportation system, increasing property prices for housing, suppressed wage level ...
In 2020, the annual total population growth rate in Singapore was −0.3%, and its resident total fertility rate (TFR) was 1.10, below the replacement rate of 2.1. In 2023, it further declined to 0.97. The first phase started with the launch of the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board in 1966 to aggressively promote family planning ...
Singapore's population grew 5% in a year as foreign workers returned to the city-state following the pandemic, data released on Friday showed. There were 5.9 million people in Singapore as of June ...
The government plans to invest more in the semiconductor sector, which contributes about 7% of Singapore’s GDP. The country is committing $18 billion between 2021 and 2025 to support R&D and ...
Singapore's population rose by about 1.1% each year over the past decade, the slowest rate since independence in 1965, the latest census showed on Wednesday, with locals having fewer children and ...
Tourism is a major industry and contributor to the Singaporean economy, attracting 13.6 million international tourists in 2023, more than double Singapore's total population. [381] Tourism contributed directly to about 3% of Singapore's GPD, on average, in the 10 years before 2023, excluding the Covid-19 pandemic years. [382]
Since independence, the contemporary government of Singapore has continued to increase the size of the island, having increased the area of the main island from 580 km 2 (224 sq mi) in the 1960s to 710 km 2 (274 sq mi) today. [8] A further 200 km 2 (77 sq mi) of land is also expected to be added to the main island. [9]