- ISO 3166
SG- Primary locale
en-SG- Currency
- SGD · Singapore Dollar
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Singapore
Singapore has 6M people, and 5.7M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 93%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. English, Chinese, and Malay are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to en-SG.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
5.7M
0%world median 81%100%
94% of 6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$98,814
Higher than 96% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
98%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
6
English 93% · Chinese 77% · Malay 14%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 4 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
96%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Singapore
share of 6M people
- Englishofficial93%5.6M
- Chineseofficial77%4.6M
- Malayofficial14%844K
- Tamilofficial2%126.6K
- Malayalam0.2%10.2K
- Punjabi0.2%9.6K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against en-SG, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 April 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 pm
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in SGD · Singapore Dollar