SINGAPORE, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's total population stood at 5.64 million as of June 2018, growing slightly by 0.5 percent over the past year, mainly due to stable growth in the citizen population, according to a government document released Thursday.
Singaporean Prime Minister's Office's Strategy Group announced Population in Brief 2018, as an annual publication providing key updates and trends on Singapore's population.
According to the document, Singapore's citizen population reached 3.47 million by this June. Among the total citizen population, 15.2 percent aged 65 and above, compared with 14.4 percent last year.
Meanwhile, the permanent resident population remained relatively stable at 0.52 million, and the non-resident population remained relatively stable at 1.64 million.
The document also revealed that there were 24,417 citizen marriages in 2017, compared with 23,873 in 2016; and there were 32,356 citizen births in 2017, compared with the 33,167 in 2016. Meanwhile, the resident total fertility rate fell from 1.20 in 2016 to 1.16 in 2017.
