Population in Brief 2025: Key Trends

The Population in Brief (PIB) 2025 publication provides key updates on Singapore’s population. Here’s a snapshot of the key trends:

1. Overall population

• Overall, Singapore’s total population stood at 6.11 million as at June 2025, a 1.2% increase from June 2024. The annualised population growth rate over the past five years (2020-2025) was higher than the preceding five-year period (2015-2020), mostly due to an increase in the number of Work Permit Holders in the Construction sector to support key infrastructure projects such as Changi Terminal 5 and the ramping up of housing supply.

• The citizen population increased by 0.7% (3.64 million to 3.66 million), while the Permanent Resident population remained stable at 0.54 million in June 2025.

• The Non-Resident population stood at 1.91 million, an increase of 2.7% from June 2024. The increase came primarily from Work Permit Holders and Migrant Domestic Workers.

2. Citizen marriages

• There were 22,955 citizen marriages in 2024, 5.7% lower than the 24,355 citizen marriages in 2023, but higher than the 22,165 citizen marriages in 2019 (pre-COVID). The average number of citizen marriages per year in the last five years (23,000) was lower than that of the preceding five years (23,600).

3. Citizen births

• There were 29,237 citizen births in 2024, 1.2% more than the 28,877 citizen births in 2023. The average number of births per year in the last five years (30,400) was lower than in the preceding five years (32,900). The resident total fertility rate was 0.97 in 2024, unchanged from 2023.

PIB 2025 is available here ↗ (opens in new tab).