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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Singapore government white paper on population</div> <p><i><b>A Sustainable Population for a Dynamic Singapore: Population White Paper</b></i>, or simply known as the <b>Population White Paper</b> (PWP), is a controversial <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white paper</a> released by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Singapore" title="Government of Singapore">government of Singapore</a> in January 2013 that projects <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>'s population as 6.9 million by the year 2030.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Content">Content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Population_White_Paper&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The PWP projects an increase of 1.6 million people from 2013, or an average of 100,000 more people in Singapore each year.<sup id="cite_ref-aj-pop_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aj-pop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The PWP argued that up to 30,000 new <a href="/wiki/Permanent_resident" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent resident">permanent residents</a> and 25,000 <a href="/wiki/Naturalized_citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalized citizen">naturalized citizens</a> each year are needed to sustain Singapore's population due to the falling birth rates in Singapore.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It also justified <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Singapore" title="Immigration to Singapore">immigration</a> and <a href="/wiki/Immigrant_workers_in_Singapore" class="mw-redirect" title="Immigrant workers in Singapore">presence of foreign workers</a> as helping local businesses thrive and "create good jobs for Singaporeans".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The PWP also included additional measures to encourage marriage and increase the birth rate. The motion was passed in Parliament to endorse the PWP by 77 votes to 13 (the 13 opponents included all members of the opposition and three nominated MPs),<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo-endo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-endo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> albeit after amendments made to leave out "population policy" and add focus on infrastructure and transport development.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_reactions">Political reactions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Population_White_Paper&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political reactions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several parties opposing the PWP have taken it to be a targeted increase of Singapore's population to 6.9 million.<sup id="cite_ref-aj-pop_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aj-pop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yahoo-endo_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-endo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Inderjit_Singh_(Singaporean_politician)" title="Inderjit Singh (Singaporean politician)">Inderjit Singh</a> of <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party" title="People's Action Party">People's Action Party</a> spoke against the white paper and rebutted <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_National_Development_(Singapore)" title="Ministry of National Development (Singapore)">Minister of National Development</a> <a href="/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan" title="Khaw Boon Wan">Khaw Boon Wan</a>'s analogy of catering for guests to a wedding banquet.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an 8 February 2013 speech in support of the White Paper, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong" title="Lee Hsien Loong">Lee Hsien Loong</a> said that he expected the 2030 population to be "significantly below" the 6.9 million figure, but that 6 million would not be enough, because of the declining birth rate and the needs of aging people.<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo-endo_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-endo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Population_White_Paper&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Citizens reacted to the PWP with shock and anger,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and this has led to the largest public protest ever organized in Singapore's history.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-aj-pop_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aj-pop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yahoo-jt_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-jt-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many Singaporeans have attributed the government's population and immigration policy as the cause of overcrowding and falling reliability of its public transportation system, increasing property prices for housing, suppressed wage level, increased competition for jobs (especially for professionals, managers, executives and technicians<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and education, increasing income inequality and other social problems.<sup id="cite_ref-chinapost_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chinapost-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tafep_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tafep-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-asiaoneafp_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asiaoneafp-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thestarscn1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thestarscn1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cnbc-ac_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnbc-ac-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Academics have also criticized the PWP as being "overly mechanistic, economically simplistic and astonishingly sociologically and politically naive".<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo-jt_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-jt-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The PWP became one of the largest political issues in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Singaporean_general_election" title="2015 Singaporean general election">2015 general elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Population_White_Paper&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Singapore" title="Immigration to Singapore">Immigration to Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore" title="Demographics of Singapore">Demographics of Singapore</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Population_White_Paper&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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