Published in today’s Business Times are the numbers for the breakdown of our labour force as at June 2010:
There were 1,712,600 Singaporeans (“citizens”), 334,700 permanent residents (“PRs”) and 1,088,600 foreigners in the labour force as at June 2010.
If we group PRs together with foreigners — rightfully so because PRs aren’t citizens if you ask me — there are a total of 1,423,300 non-citizens among the total workforce of 3,135,900 workers.
1423300 / 3135900 = 45.39%
So, non-citizen foreigners make up 45.4% of Singapore’s workforce.
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Note:
From June 2001 to June 2010, the total number of workers had increased by 34.6%, or 805,4000.
- Singaporean workers increased only by 15.6%, or 243,500.
- PR workers increased by a staggering 91%, or 159,500.
- Non-resident workers increased by 58.6%, or 402,400.
