Singapore

Interesting Facts About Singapore

• Singapore is an island country comprising a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet.
• As of mid-2025, Singapore's population stood at 6,110,200, making it the world's largest and most populous city-state.
• About 74.3% of residents are of Chinese descent, 13.5% of Malay descent, 9.0% of Indian descent, and 3.2% of other descent.
• Singapore has four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, with English serving as the lingua franca used in business, government, law and education.
• Malay was designated as a national language after Singapore's independence from Britain in the 1960s to avoid friction with its Malay-speaking neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia.
• 78.7% of resident households live in subsidised, high-rise, public housing apartments developed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB).
• Singapore's total fertility rate has plateaued at 1.1 children per woman since 2010, among the lowest in the world, with the median age of residents at 42.8 in 2022.

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