Interesting read....
Increase in pace of immigration?
These “omitted” statistics are arguably, quite significant – because it indicates that there has been no slowdown – but an increase in immigration in the last 3 years.
New citizens granted was 15,777, 20,693 and 20,000 for 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
For new PRs granted, it was 27,521, 29,891 and 30,000, respectively.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/03/09/alt...s-grew-27/
What the good stocks for this population boom? Smrt, Singtel, ComfortDelgro, banks?
(10-03-2014, 12:25 PM)Behappyalways Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting read....
Increase in pace of immigration?
These “omitted” statistics are arguably, quite significant – because it indicates that there has been no slowdown – but an increase in immigration in the last 3 years.
New citizens granted was 15,777, 20,693 and 20,000 for 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
For new PRs granted, it was 27,521, 29,891 and 30,000, respectively.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/03/09/alt...s-grew-27/
http://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/...topic2.xls
The PR populations has dropped from the peak of 541,000 in 2010 to 531,000 in 2013. Surprised??
The citizen population growth is 30,000 in 2010, 27000 in 2011,28,000 in 2012 and 28,000 in 2013 that roughly matched our birth rate in Singapore.
Hey.. but we imported 20000+ new citizens.. where do they go???
Come on... there were also singaporeans that had given up their citizenship and also as the population ages, more and more will bite the dust yearly.
So, without these 20000+ new citizens, we may go into around 0% growth or negative growth.
The non-resident population grows more rapidly but I suppose that is in line with the major constructions that are ongoing.
It depends on how you present the statistics, it can be outright ugly if someone had intentionally presented one-sided story.
Come back to Mark Twain quote again.. "Lies, damn lies and statistics"
giving out PR and citizenship may not really reflect the true number of number of people on the ground that has come in.
If they bring the level up to 7mil maybe they let in another 1.6 mil people on paper, but don't forget many of these also bring along their wives, kids, in-laws it could be 5 million more people.
actually I was thinking about the 'indian hero' in the little india riot who tries to stop the rioters. Why didn't the Singapore govt invite him and let him be a poster boy....but instead he left for india? so coincidence that his work permit is up?
there will never be an answer...just pondering.....
(10-03-2014, 01:09 PM)Freenasi Wrote: [ -> ]What the good stocks for this population boom? Smrt, Singtel, ComfortDelgro, banks?
PAPMBePW161231?
I refer to the following extract from the ST:
Mr Low (Aljunied GRC) said the bed crunch was an example of Third World problems in First World Singapore and added: "One certainly hopes that Singapore does not make history by going from Third World to First, and back to Third within one generation."
While acknowledging the bed crunch problem is not new and tends to wax and wane, he said the problem has become severe enough to "warrant MOH to take a hard look".
The bed crunch was also criticised by the chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for health, Dr Lam Pin Min (Sengkang West), even as he noted the many accolades that Singapore's health-care system has won for its quality and efficiency.
Dr Lam said: "While we seek to add more beds to the system in the form of acute and community hospitals, let us not lose sight of the bigger picture.
"To me, the bed crunch also points to the fact that we have not effectively deployed our resources and ensured right siting of care."
Responding, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong stressed that building capacity has been a key focus of Singapore's health-care policy. From 2003 to 2013, beds in public acute and community hospitals as well as in nursing homes increased by over 30 per cent, he said.
On one hand, Minister Gan replied that for the past 10 years "beds in public acute and community hospitals as well as in nursing homes increased by over 30 per cent". On the other hand, he failed to mentioned that Singapore's population has increased from 4,114.8k in 2003 to 5,399.2k in 2013, an increase over 30 per cent too.
What does this mean? Capacity has kept pace with population growth BUT not population aging! That is the nub of the problem! And who is the health Minister from 2004 to 2011?
The nub of the problem is not the planned supply. It is the demand issue due to lax immigration and GDP pump by perspiration/ population advocated by the govt. Across the whole spectrum from transport to drainage to property, this population issue has huge implication and evidence of a serious misfire.
That is why 7m population by maybe 2040 sounds more reasonable as it allows infrastructure to catch up, instead of obsessing on 2% GDP growth by population growth.