Singapore
Republic of Singapore
- Region
- Asia · South-Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Singapore
- Population
- 6,111,175 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary republic
- Currency
- Singapore dollar (SGD)
- Official languages
- Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil
- Spoken languages
- English (official) 48.3%, Mandarin (official) 29.9%, other Chinese dialects (includes Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka) 8.7%, Malay (official) 9.2%, Tamil (official) 2.5%, other 1.4% (2020 est.)
- Written scripts
- Chinese characters, Latin, Tamil
- Area
- 710 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, ASEAN, IMF, WCO, WTO
Political stability
87 / 100
Economic stability
84 / 100
Population stability
58 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- integrated circuits, refined petroleum, machinery, vaccines, gold (2023)
- Key imports
- integrated circuits, refined petroleum, crude petroleum, gold, gas turbines (2023)
- Natural resources
- fish, deepwater ports
- Primary route
- Global transshipment hub on the Strait of Malacca — Asia–Europe mainlines
- Secondary route
- Intra-Asia and transpacific relay services
The xin.bz view
- Singapore and the Strait of Malacca are the region’s logistics hinge: more than 51,000 vessels crossed the straits in H1 2026, and the world’s leading bunkering hub held roughly 39.2 million barrels of oil-product inventories in late August.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
Vessel-Days Are Becoming the Scarce Asset in Global Shipping
The merchant fleet is growing while effective capacity tightens — Hormuz detours, Panama slot cuts, war-risk insurance, officer shortages and drydocking are consuming the ship-days that move cargo.
The Fuel Dock Becomes the Next Shipping Chokepoint
Large-vessel bunker constraints are moving from refinery systems into global freight economics — a 218,000 b/d fuel-oil deficit, 12–15-day Singapore lead times, and the routes, industries and carriers that pay first.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.