SGP · East Asia & Pacific

Singapore

6,111,175

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+74.32K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+51.7%from 4.03M
Life expectancy83.3 years2024
Fertility rate0.97births per woman · 2024
Urban population100.0%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How Singapore is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1411.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6474.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+14.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate7.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+1.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+16.89Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Singapore look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 6.08M in 2050—4.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.83M
  2. 20506.08M
  3. 21004.16M
Median age in 205050.9years
Births in 205032.05Kduring the year
Deaths in 205059.62Kduring the year
Life expectancy87.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.65M
  2. 19702.07M
  3. 19802.41M
  4. 19903.05M
  5. 20004.03M
  6. 20105.08M
  7. 20205.69M
  8. 20256.11M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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