Selected historical figures

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• ASEAN population (2023): about 683 million – Chapters F.IV and I.I¹
• China’s share of Singapore’s merchandise trade (2023): 13.9 per cent – Chapter I.II²
• Singapore’s share of cumulative equity FDI into India (April 2000 to March 2026): 24.72 per cent of US$787.72 billion – Chapter I.III³
• Equity FDI from Singapore into India (financial year 2025–26): US$19.80 billion – Chapter I.III⁴
• Singapore’s direct investment in Indonesia (2025): US$17.4 billion, the largest of any country – Chapter I.IV⁵
• EU and Singapore investment stocks (2024): EU in Singapore €249.8 billion, Singapore in the EU €273.9 billion – Chapter F.IV⁶
• Singapore’s commitment to the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation: US$9.104 billion (3.793 per cent) – Chapter F.V⁷

• Population at the first census (January 1824): 10,683 – Chapter A.II⁸
• Total trade (1825): 22 million dollars (older estimate) or 12.3 million dollars (Wong Lin Ken) – Chapter A.II⁹
• Population of Singapore: 97,111 (1871), 228,555 (1901) and 557,745 (1931) – Chapter B.V¹⁰
• Malayan tin exports (end of the nineteenth century): about 52,000 metric tons, just over half of world output – Chapter B.IV¹¹
• Prices in Singapore during the Japanese occupation: multiplied by 11,226.5, with the currency in circulation multiplied by 25.1 – Chapter C.I¹²
• Population (1965): 1,886,900 – Chapter C.II¹³
• Real GDP growth: −3.1 per cent (1964) and +7.8 per cent (1965) – Chapter C.II¹⁴
• Real GDP growth (1998): +1.5 per cent in the first estimate, −2.2 per cent in the current World Bank series – Chapter D.III¹⁵
• Retrenchments (1998): 29,086 – Chapter D.III¹⁶

Notes

1. Wikipedia, “ASEAN”, infobox (2023 estimate), as cited in Chapter I.I. ↩
2. Rajah & Tann Singapore, client update of 9 January 2025, as cited in Chapter I.II. ↩
3. India Brand Equity Foundation, “Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)” (ibef.org), as cited in Chapter I.III. ↩
4. India Brand Equity Foundation, “India-Singapore Trade” (ibef.org), as cited in Chapter I.III. ↩
5. Databoks (Katadata), 19 January 2026, citing the Indonesian Ministry of Investment, as cited in Chapter I.IV. ↩
6. European Commission, “EU trade relations with Singapore”, as cited in Chapter F.IV. ↩
7. AMRO, Annual Report 2025 and Factsheet, as cited in Chapter F.V. ↩
8. National Library Board Singapore, HistorySG, “First census of Singapore is taken”, as cited in Chapter A.II. ↩
9. Wong Lin Ken, “Singapore: Its Growth as an Entrepot Port, 1819–1941”, as cited in Chapter A.II, which sets out the gap between the two series. ↩
10. Census figures as tabulated in Wikipedia, “Demographics of Singapore”, as cited in Chapter B.V. Chapter B.I gives 306,775 (1871) and 572,249 (1901) for the colony of the Straits Settlements as a whole. ↩
11. John H. Drabble, “The Economic History of Malaysia”, EH.Net Encyclopedia, 31 July 2004, as cited in Chapter B.IV. ↩
12. Huff and Majima, “Financing Japan’s World War II Occupation”, Discussion Paper No. 109, Table 5, as cited in Chapter C.I. ↩
13. Department of Statistics Singapore, table M810001, as cited in Chapter C.II. ↩
14. Department of Statistics Singapore, table M015721, growth rates calculated by the author of Chapter C.II. ↩
15. MAS, Annual Report 1998/99, p. 9, and World Bank, World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG, as cited in Chapter D.III. ↩
16. MAS, Annual Report 1998/99, section “The Labour Market”, as cited in Chapter D.III. ↩

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