Singapore Population & Property Tracker
How many people live in Singapore, who are they, and how does that line move against property prices and rents? This tracker places the official population statistics — total, citizens, permanent residents and non-residents, annual since 1950 — alongside the URA private price index, the HDB Resale Price Index and the rental index. Completely free, no paywall, no account, and every figure states the exact year or quarter it refers to.
Updated for the June 2025 population data. SingStat publishes population figures annually each September (June reference date); the tracker re-ingests the official table automatically every week. Sources: Singapore Department of Statistics (M810001), URA and HDB via data.gov.sg.
As of June 2025, Singapore's total population is 6,111,175 — 3,660,683 citizens, 543,832 permanent residents and 1,906,660 non-residents — having added 74,315 people in a year. Population density stands at 8,300 per square kilometre. All figures are official Singapore Department of Statistics data, charted against URA and HDB property indices by PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker.
Singapore population — June 2025 Total: 6,111,175 (+74,315 in a year) Citizens: 3,660,683 PRs: 543,832 Non-residents: 1,906,660 (31% of total) 2015→2025: population +10.4%, URA private price index +52.8% Source: PropKaki using SingStat, URA & HDB data propkaki.sg/market/population
How many people live in Singapore?
| Group | June 2025 | Share | Change vs prior year | Trend (20y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total population | 6,111,175 | — | +74,315 | |
| Citizens | 3,660,683 | 59.9% | +24,746 | |
| Permanent residents | 543,832 | 8.9% | −1,099 | |
| Non-residents | 1,906,660 | 31.2% | +50,668 |
Population density stands at 8,300 people per square kilometre as of June 2025, according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker using Singapore Department of Statistics data — roughly triple the 2,486 recorded in 1957.
How fast is Singapore's population growing?
Singapore added 74,315 people in the year to June 2025, according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker using Singapore Department of Statistics data. The chart below shows the absolute change each year since 1951 — the surges of the 2000s, the pandemic decline of 2020–2021 (the first sustained fall in the modern record) and the rebound since.
Does population growth drive property prices?
Over the decade from 2015 to 2025, Singapore's population grew 10.4%, while the URA private residential price index (year-end values) moved up 52.8% and the HDB Resale Price Index moved up 51.0% — according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker, using SingStat, URA and HDB data.
Read the comparison with care: population is one demand-side input among several. Prices also answer to interest rates, cooling measures, incomes and — critically — supply, which the government adjusts through BTO launches and land sales. The explorer below lets you overlay the series and judge the relationship across any period since 1975, including the years where the two lines part company.
How has the PR population moved?
Singapore has 543,832 permanent residents as of June 2025, according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker using Singapore Department of Statistics data. The PR population roughly doubled between 2000 and 2010, and has been held close to half a million since residency criteria were tightened in 2010 — a policy plateau clearly visible in the chart. PRs may buy HDB resale flats (with restrictions) and private condominiums, so this series is the closest official proxy for one slice of resale demand.
What do non-resident numbers do to rents?
Singapore's non-resident population stands at 1,906,660 as of June 2025 — 31.2% of everyone in the country, according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker. Non-residents cannot buy HDB flats, so their housing demand concentrates in the rental market — which makes this series the demand line most worth reading next to the rental index.
The post-pandemic stretch is the clearest episode in the record: between June 2021 and June 2024 the non-resident population rose 26.5%, and the URA non-landed rental index (year-end values) rose 36.3% over the same years — a period when pandemic-delayed completions also held back supply, according to PropKaki's Singapore Population & Property Tracker using SingStat and URA data.
Non-resident change per year: latest added 50,668 (2025).
Explore the data
Build your own chart — population groups, density and year-by-year change against the property indices, all on annual points. Compare up to four indicators; total population and the URA private price index are preloaded.
Indices and percentages plot on the left axis; unit counts on the right. Source: SingStat, URA & HDB.
Use this data
The population series are available as free JSON, no key required — for example: api.propkaki.sg/api/market/series?vertical=macro&keys=pop_total_yr,pop_pr_yr,pop_nonres_yr. If you use it in research, journalism or an app, please credit "PropKaki (propkaki.sg)" and the Singapore Department of Statistics. A machine-readable index of this tracker also lives at propkaki.sg/llms.txt. Every data ingestion is logged publicly on the market data changelog.
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Methodology
Population figures are the Singapore Department of Statistics' official annual series (table M810001), with a June reference date each year — total population from 1950, and the resident/citizen/PR/non-resident split from 1970. PropKaki ingests the table via SingStat's public TableBuilder API and computes the year-by-year changes; nothing is estimated or forecast. Property indices are URA and HDB official statistics: because population is annual, every chart on this page is annual, with quarterly indices annualised by taking each completed year's fourth-quarter value. The full quarterly indices live on the private residential and HDB trackers.
Population charts plot in thousands so the axes stay legible; prose and tables carry the full figures. This page reports official statistics and computed arithmetic only — where two series are shown together, that is a comparison, not a causal claim, and the caveats (supply, rates, policy) are stated alongside.
Frequently asked questions
What is the population of Singapore?
Singapore's total population stands at 6,111,175 as of June 2025, comprising about 3.66 million citizens, 0.54 million permanent residents and 1.91 million non-residents, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics. The PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker republishes these official annual figures — updated each year after the September release — alongside Singapore's property price and rental indices.
How many permanent residents (PRs) does Singapore have?
Singapore has about 543,832 permanent residents as of June 2025, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics. The PR population has been held roughly stable at around half a million since 2010, when residency criteria were tightened — the year-by-year series since 1970 is charted on the PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker.
How many foreigners live in Singapore?
Singapore's non-resident population — work pass holders, dependants and students who are neither citizens nor PRs — stands at about 1,906,660 as of June 2025, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics, roughly 31% of the total population. The series since 1970 is charted on the PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker, including the sharp pandemic-era dip in 2020–2021 and the rebound since.
Does population growth drive Singapore property prices?
Population growth is one demand-side input among several, and the tracker shows the two series side by side so the relationship can be read rather than asserted. Years of strong population growth have often coincided with rising prices, but the correlation is loose: prices also respond to interest rates, cooling measures, household incomes and — critically — housing supply, which the government adjusts through BTO launches and the Government Land Sales programme. The tracker presents the official numbers and leaves the causal weighing to the reader.
Do foreigners and PRs push up HDB resale and rental prices?
Non-residents cannot buy HDB flats and most cannot buy private landed property, so their housing demand concentrates in the rental market and, for PRs, in HDB resale (with restrictions) and private condominiums. The tracker charts the non-resident population against the URA rental index — including the 2021–2024 period when both moved sharply — so the relationship can be examined directly in official data. Rental outcomes also depend on completions, which were pandemic-delayed in those years.
What is the PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker?
The PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker is a free dashboard on propkaki.sg that places Singapore's official population statistics — total, residents, citizens, PRs, non-residents and density, annual since 1950 — alongside the URA private residential price index, the HDB Resale Price Index and the URA non-landed rental index. Population data comes from the Singapore Department of Statistics (table M810001); property indices come from URA and HDB. PropKaki computes the year-by-year changes and adds no estimates or forecasts.
How often is the population data updated?
The Singapore Department of Statistics publishes population figures annually, with a June reference date, typically released each September in 'Population in Brief'. The PropKaki tracker re-ingests the official table automatically every week, so the new year's figures appear shortly after SingStat publishes them; property indices on the page update quarterly with the URA and HDB releases.
Why are the property indices shown as annual points on this page?
Population is published once a year, so every chart on this page uses annual points to keep the comparison honest: quarterly property indices are annualised by taking each completed year's fourth-quarter value. The full quarterly versions of those indices live on the private residential and HDB trackers, where every quarter is shown.
What is the population density of Singapore?
Singapore's population density is about 8,300 people per square kilometre as of June 2025, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics — among the highest of any country, and roughly triple the 2,486 per square kilometre recorded in 1957. The full annual series is charted on the PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker.
Is the PropKaki Singapore Population & Property Tracker free?
Yes. The tracker is completely free on propkaki.sg — no paywall, no account requirement and no locked deeper tier. PropKaki is operated by Straits Intelligence Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company, and the tracker is part of its public market data layer.
The full quarterly price and rental indices live on the private residential tracker (URA, from 1975) and the HDB resale tracker (from 1990), with volumes, vacancy and supply pipeline.
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