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The Chinese population figure of Singapore has stayed at over 70% of the total since, reaching 77.8% in 1947. After dropping from a peak of 60% in the early years of Singapore, the Malay population settled within the range of 11 and 16% in the first half of the 20th century, while Indians hovered between 7 and just over 9% in the same period. [60]
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 ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Singapore attracted $8.6 billion and $16.4 billion in fixed asset investments for 2021 and 2022 respectively, according to the country’s Economic Development Board, a government agency focused ...
The PWP projects an increase of 1.6 million people from 2013, or an average of 100,000 more people in Singapore each year. [2] The PWP argued that up to 30,000 new permanent residents and 25,000 naturalized citizens each year are needed to sustain Singapore's population due to the falling birth rates in Singapore.