Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 89%
male: 95%
female: 83%
Labor force: 1.649 million (1994)
by occupation: financial, business, and other services 33.5%,
manufacturing 25.6%, commerce 22.9%, construction 6.6%, other 11.4%
(1994)
@Singapore:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Singapore
conventional short form: Singapore
Digraph: SN
Type: republic within Commonwealth
Capital: Singapore
Administrative divisions: none
Independence: 9 August 1965 (from Malaysia)
National holiday: National Day, 9 August (1965)