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What’s our attitude towards foreigners as population crosses 6m mark?
With its birth rate falling, Singapore needs to top up its labour pool with foreigners. Let’s examine how we treat them.
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Driven mainly by an increase in the number of foreign workers and migrant domestic workers, the nation’s total population size inched up to 6.04 million as of June 2024.
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SINGAPORE - The annual population figures are out and they show that Singapore’s population has crossed the six million mark
Driven mainly by an increase in the number of foreign workers and migrant domestic workers, the nation’s total population size inched up to 6.04 million as at June 2024.

