Parliamentary Reply by Minister Indranee Rajah on Long Term Population Projections

FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF SINGAPORE

WRITTEN REPLY

TUESDAY, 13 JANUARY 2026

Mr Fadli Fawzi:

To ask the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance what is the population figure used by the Government as an infrastructure planning parameter to plan for the long term beyond 2030.

Mr Fadli Fawzi:

To ask the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance (a) whether the Government expects Singapore's total population to be at, above, or below 6.9 million beyond 2030; and (b) what are the justifications for such projections.

Ms Indranee Rajah:

Our future population size depends on various demographic trends, such as birth rates, life expectancies, and migration, as well as future social and economic needs. We thus develop various scenarios which are used for infrastructure planning to ensure that we are prepared for a range of possible outcomes, and do not plan on the basis of any single population number.

Our scenarios show that our total population is expected to remain significantly below 6.9 million by 2030, and that 6.9 million remains relevant as a planning parameter for the 2030s.