"Ethnic Chinese constitute about 77 percent of the 4.6million population while Malays comprise 14 percent. Malays have the highest fertility rate at 2.1 percent – right at the replacement rate – but the Chinese have the lowest, at 1.07 percent. The island republic has about 1 million foreigners. Although most are domestic helpers and construction workers from India, the Philippines and Thailand, there are another 110,000-odd highly-educated expatriate professionals from across the world, particularly India and China as well as Europe and the US, Canada and Australia – many of them so-called “astronauts” – Singaporeans who migrated, got citizenship and came back. Partly because of immigration, the proportion of Indian citizens and permanent residents rose from 6.4% in 1980 to 9.0% in 2007."Read More
