The number of citizen marriages last year fell by 1.7 per cent from the record high of 24,767 the year before, but remained higher than pre-pandemic levels.
However, this was still higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to the report published by the National Population and Talent Division of the Prime Minister’s Office and its partner agencies. Slightly over a third of citizen marriages last year were transnational, similar to pre-pandemic levels of 35 to 39 per cent .
By race, the TFR for the Chinese population was 0.81. It was 0.95 for the Indian population and 1.65 for the Malay population. The median age of the citizen population as of June this year is now 43.4 years old, up from 43 last year. This has increased steadily over the last 10 years from 40.4 years in June 2014.
About 5.7 per cent of the new Singapore citizens, or 1,332 of them, were children born overseas to Singaporean parents.
Falling Birth Rate Marriages Ageing Population
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