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Overseas Singaporeans
Total population
217,200 (2019)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Diaspora total340,751 (2019)[2][a]
Overseas Singaporean Malaysia91,002[2]
Overseas Singaporean Australia64,739[2]
Overseas Singaporean United Kingdom58,432[2]
Overseas Singaporean United States39,018[2]
Overseas Singaporean Indonesia23,524[2]
Overseas Singaporean China12,799[2]
Overseas Singaporean Canada12,582[2]
Overseas Singaporean Bangladesh9,709[2]
Overseas Singaporean New Zealand5,734[2]
Overseas Singaporean India4,155[2]
Overseas Singaporean Netherlands4,126[2]
Overseas Singaporean Japan2,735[2]
Overseas Singaporean Germany2,638[2]
Overseas Singaporean France2,512[2]
Overseas Singaporean  Switzerland2,349[2]
Overseas Singaporean Vietnam1,830[2]
Languages
  • English
  • Malay
  • Mandarin
  • Tamil
Religion
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Taoism
  • Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
Singaporeans

Overseas Singaporeans refers to citizens or people who identify as a nation with the sovereign island city-state of Singapore that are living outside the borders of Singapore.[3] Most Singaporeans overseas are high-income expatriates bringing their expertise or skills to other countries while accompanied by their families or students temporarily studying abroad.[4]

According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in 2019, the population of the Singaporean diaspora stands at 340,751[2] and according to official statistics from the Government of Singapore, 217,200 of Singaporeans overseas continues to retain their citizenship.[1] Most of the Singaporean diaspora are generally located in Malaysia, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Indonesia and China.

  1. ^ a b c "2019 Singapore Population in Brief" (PDF). Strategy Group Singapore, Prime Minister's Office. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "International migrant stock 2019". United Nations. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. ^ "More S'poreans overseas, but brain drain concerns dissipate". Today. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Chart of the Day: 200,000 Singaporeans live overseas". Singapore Business Review. Retrieved 19 September 2016.


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