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3 days ago · Ethnolinguistic composition. The population of Singapore is diverse, the result of considerable past immigration. Chinese predominate, making up some three-fourths of the total. Malays are the next largest ethnic group, and Indians the third. None of those three major communities is homogeneous.
1 day ago · Singapore, city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, about 85 miles (137 km) north of the Equator. It consists of Singapore Island and some 60 small islets. Singapore is the largest port in Southeast Asia and one of the busiest in the world.
2 days ago · Singapore is a small, stable, highly developed country with an elected parliamentary system of government. Tourist facilities are modern and widely available. Singapore's resident population of over five million inhabitants comprises 75% Chinese, 14% Malay, 9% Indian, and 2% others. English is widely spoken.
2 days ago · In Singapore, the median age that citizen mothers have their first child is 30.6 years (according to the Population in Brief 2020). It is also at this age that the median salary of females starts falling behind males.
- Dinesh Dayani
12 hours ago · Singapore’s population is ageing rapidly. In 2010, about 10 per cent of its citizens were aged 65 and above. By 2022, that proportion had risen to 18.4 per cent.
3 days ago · Postwar British political plans for Malaya excluded Singapore from a proposed Malayan Union and later from the Federation of Malaya, mainly because it was thought that Singapore’s predominantly Chinese population would be an ethnic obstacle to common citizenship.
1 day ago · In 2020, the People’s Action Party team there came out on top with 51.69 per cent of the vote in a closely fought contest against the Progress Singapore Party, led by former PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock.
