Mid-year estimates placed the current Singapore population at 4.680 million, a 4.4% increase from the previous 4.483 million. The increase was attribute to the rise in the number of foreigners taking up citizenship or permanent residency. This made up a total of 3.675 million residents in the small city-state.According to 2006 statistics, 1.26 babies were born per woman, well below the required rate of 2.1 to boost population growth, despite government incentives especially to local married couples to encourage childbearing. Singapore needs to address this shortage plus an aging population for a long-term sustainable economic future.
If you can still remember, Singapore recently projected its population to be 6.5 million in 40-50 years. There are some concerns among Singaporeans on competition for jobs from newcomers as the Singapore government embarked on an aggressive drive to attract immigrants to avert a serious population shortage as efforts to encourage people to have more children failed. The challenge is not the number of jobs available but finding the right people to fill these jobs.
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My friends in the US asked me about the population of Singapore and I said my rough guess is 3.5 million. I was wrong!
How many Filipinos are there in Singapore?
So, we Filipinos we are residing here in Singapore are now in the population statistics of Singapore!
As for the job availability here, if the locals would not be aggressive enough to train themselves and invest more in learning new fields and skills then foreigners would most likely take over these jobs.
That's a big jump. Where are the bulk of immigrants coming from?
My guess missed by 7 million!
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