Some Interesting figures

The figures are obtained from various sources over the years by and are not authoritative sources of information as the information have not been updated nor verified.

• Singapore needs 17,000 graduates a year by the year 2000 but it only produces 9,000 graduates a year currently.
  
• The 2 Universities NUS & NTU will admit 9,000 students in 1997 of whom 1,000 were foreign students.
  
• NUS has 1925 foreign undergraduates & 1395 foreign postgraduates . NTU has 2025 foreign undergraduates & 1250 foreign postgraduates. Enrolments figures of both universities to increase to about 10,00 to 11,000 a year.
  
• The 4 Polytechnics, Singapore Poly, Ngee Ann Poly, Temasek Poly & Nanyang Poly collectively enrolled a total of 16,000 full-time students in 1997.
  
• The civil service has 61,000 officers
  
• 1994 , 866 IT establishments employing 10,137 workers. Presently about 22,000 IT professionals. At least 2,600 new IT graduates needed each year.
  
• 6,600 research scientists and engineers in Singapore.
  
• On average 20,000 new businesses (sole proprietor & partnerships) and about 10,000 private limited companies were registered each year.
  
• There are 750,000 households in Singapore and the mean household size is 3.9 persons.
  
• In 1994 there were 862 accounting, book-keeping and auditing services establishments employing 5,923. There are now over 9,000 registered Accountants in Singapore.
  
• In 1995 the Ministry of Environment licensed 828 food factories, 11,796 food stalls in 6,913 food shops and 19,265 hawkers in 163 market and food centres.
  
• 80 aerospace companies provides about 9,000 jobs.
  
• There are 143 commercial banks, 22 finance companies , 10 international money brokers and 82 stockbroking firms in Singapore. The financial and business services sector created 18,400 new jobs in 1996.
  
• There are 10 agrotechnology parks in Singapore involved in food production and cultivation of ornamental plants, growing of vegetables , fish and orchids
  
• In 1996 there are about 397 licensed childcare centres in Singapore with about 30,926 places and are looked after by 394 supervisors with 1950 childcare teachers and 1,591 childcare assistants.
  
• In 1995 more than 200,000 people were employed in the construction industry. 52,800 new jobs created in 1996 .
  
• 20% of professional and technical personnel employed in the construction industry in 1995 were foreigners with most of them working as architects, civil engineers, architectural draughtsmen, construction foremen and clerks-of-work.
  
• 85% of the tradesmen and general labourers in the construction industry were foreigners.
  
• The CITI conducts training courses for about 3,300 tradesmen and 990 supervisors and managers annually and it also conducts trade tests for 8,000 workers a year. There are about 4,000 firms registered as Contractors.
  
• In 1995 there were 4,495 practicing medical doctors of which 41% were specialists. NUS medical faculty produces about 150 doctors a year. 875 Qualified dental surgeons and 815 registered are mostly in private practice.
  
• About 14,000 trained nurses in Singapore but 2,000 have remained outside the work force. By the end of 1997 there is a projected national shortfall of over 2,000 nurses.
  
• Nurses generally work 6 days a week and perform shift duties and are sometimes required to work on weekends and public holidays. To work as a registered nurse you need a recognized certificate or diploma in general nursing and be registered with the Singapore Nursing Board.
  
• There are more than 19,000 small retail shops and together they employ an estimated 78,000 people.
  
• 250 electronic manufacturing companies, 60% multinationals or joint-ventures, employs 123,000 workers or more than 1/3 of the total manufacturing workforce.
  
• 25,000 people work in 81 gazetted hotels in Singapore with more than 50 rooms. Currently 30,000 hotel rooms, expected to increase to 35,800 rooms by 1998 in 115 hotels.
  
• Real estate agents and lessors total 4,056. There were 636 real estate developers and 1008 real estate management , maintenance & other housing firms. 12,173 business services establishments employing 91,616 workers
  
• There 192 primary schools, 6 full schools, 145 secondary schools including 12 autonomous schools, 8 independent schools, 14 junior colleges, 4 centralized institutes
  
• 2 universities, 4 polytechnics and 33 technical and commercial training institutes in Singapore.
  
• NUS has 2,300 teaching and research staff, 70% of whom are Ph.D. holders. Temasek Polytechnic has 1,300 staff members.
  
• There are altogether 21,000 primary, secondary, junior college and ITE teachers in Singapore.
  
• In 1996 the commercial sector employed 406,000, the financial and business services 246,000 and the transport and communications 195,000. For the Services Sector effective 1/10/97 3 foreigners can be hired for every 7 locals which means that 363,000 foreigners may be employed.