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SG targets population growth to 7 mln: DBS Vickers
SG targets population growth to 7 mln: DBS Vickers
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/stocks ... 54290.html
Already being discussed on numerous forums...
So indeed, how they're going to target that population growth to 7 mln? Clone humans??? Bitrth rate is going down, foreigners are squeezed out...
Already being discussed on numerous forums...
So indeed, how they're going to target that population growth to 7 mln? Clone humans??? Bitrth rate is going down, foreigners are squeezed out...
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True, the timing couldn't be worse...someone just got himself in deep shit. Especially since this is just an assumption but no fact, and we know how jumpy the locals are these days...offshoreoildude wrote:You gotta figure that DBS vickers are no friend of the PAP for publishing that just before an election!

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I have wondered for awhile how PAP friendly the CEO of DBS is... he has very big aspirations for DBS (Damn Bloody Stupid bank as a Sinky once told me) - much bigger than this little red dot.wwww wrote:True, the timing couldn't be worse...someone just got himself in deep shit. Especially since this is just an assumption but no fact, and we know how jumpy the locals are these days...offshoreoildude wrote:You gotta figure that DBS vickers are no friend of the PAP for publishing that just before an election!
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Re: SG targets population growth to 7 mln: DBS Vickers
Same way that it's been done so far.Sergei82 wrote:http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/stocks ... 54290.html
Already being discussed on numerous forums...
So indeed, how they're going to target that population growth to 7 mln? Clone humans??? Bitrth rate is going down, foreigners are squeezed out...
in order of preference:
1. Try to get locals to have more children
2. Get locals living abroad move back
3. Locals marrying foreigners (+1 with the marriage and then the possible children)
4. Get PRs who actually want to stay here
5. Get short term expats under EP etc to fill up the gaps
And with all of the above be selective, that the people coming in add something to the country expect just a headcount. Wait a moment that’s what the government has been doing all the time. And surprisingly the population numbers are going up every year. And surprise the short term ones are growing faster than PR and Citizens, as the preferred option is not that easy to do.
http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/themes ... /popn.html
it's roughly 100000 per year for the last 20 years.
1990 3M
2000 4M
2010 5M
so they are spot on time for the new MRT lines announced to be ready 2030 when the number reaches 7M. It works like clockwork.
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7m people is already a big problem in Hong Kong and when we factor in the difference in physical size....... Singapore wouldn't be a place I want to live if EVER it were to become a reality.
Very hopefully by then, I'll be dead and burnt to a crisp!
Very hopefully by then, I'll be dead and burnt to a crisp!
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How long ago have you been to Seoul? (for example)ScoobyDoes wrote:7m people is already a big problem in Hong Kong and when we factor in the difference in physical size....... Singapore wouldn't be a place I want to live if EVER it were to become a reality.
Very hopefully by then, I'll be dead and burnt to a crisp!
With the massive housing oversupply hitting the market in the next few years I am not too worried. However, MRT rides will become a very "cozy" experience, especially in the NEL which is serving PAP's latest boom town Punggol.ScoobyDoes wrote:7m people is already a big problem in Hong Kong and when we factor in the difference in physical size....... Singapore wouldn't be a place I want to live if EVER it were to become a reality.
Very hopefully by then, I'll be dead and burnt to a crisp!

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That is your interpretation. But no it doesn't mean that (1960 it was 1.6M) simply the growth rate has changed since 1960-1990, from 70 to 90 it took 20 years to grow 1M and resident growth was relatively faster then for the last 20 year. Since 1990 the rate has been different and since the growth is pretty much controlled by ICA therefore I wouldn't call it that dubious.Sergei82 wrote:Very dubious interpolation, implying that Singapore was uninhabited island in 1960.
Does anyone know statistics for 2012 + projected for 2013? Let us interpolate that!
Of course the government policies might change, but so far over last 2 decades very little has changed.
The 2012 numbers are there behind the link if you bothered to look , I can copy them here too:
2012 5,312.4 3,818.2
from there, a quick projection 2013 5,400.0 3.845.0
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