Singapore
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Singapore is filled. The one other country reaching this view is drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Singapore. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 1.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 103.6°E–104.0°E, 1.2°N–1.5°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Singapore. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
2 sources from Singaporein Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Channel NewsAsia
- Mothership
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present
Official alerts
no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Singapore
29°C / 85°FPartly cloudywind 3 km/h / 2 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Singapore, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:55 AM · sunset 7:01 PM12h 06m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- SGPuncited
- Driving side
- leftcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Singaporeuncited
- Official languages
- cited
4 official languages
English, Malay, Standard Chinese, Tamil
- Plug type
- Type G (BS 1363)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- gov.sg ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Singapore: the UN's 2025 estimate is 6,111,175 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 8.5 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 6,111,175 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 6,036,860 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 8.5 more an hour (74,364 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 6,111,1752025
- GDP
- 603,869,516,9992025
- GDP per capita
- 98,8142025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 83.3 years2024
- Exports
- 177.9%2025
- Imports
- 142.5%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
Majulah Singapura
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) Onward, Singapore
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) - Founded
- 1965
- National anthem
- Onward Singapore
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World Heritage Sites
1 World Heritage Site
- Singapore Botanic Gardens · inscribed 2015
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 995listed as: fire department
- 995listed as: emergency medical services
- 999listed as: police
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Currency
SGD
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.