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IndicatorSGPSingaporeEast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.72rank #75
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile87.7rank #5
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #77
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.37rank #74
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.4rank #114
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile95.7rank #1
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.72rank #75
Military spending% GDP2.8%rank #27
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.12rank #121
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile86.9rank #19
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile88.5rank #1
Rule of Law0-100 percentile81.6rank #19
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.97rank #11
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.43rank #82
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.36rank #81
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile57.5rank #97
Women in parliament% seats32.3%rank #58
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #67
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment0.1%rank #182
Agriculture value added% GDP0.02%rank #158
Annual working hours per workerhours2,283.2rank #20
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker531,464.3rank #17
Current account balance% GDP16.7%rank #4
Employment-to-population ratio%68.3%rank #24
FDI net inflows% GDP26.3%rank #3
GDPcurrent US$603.87Brank #27
GDP growth%5%rank #44
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$98,814rank #4
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $139,592.6rank #1
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $111,239.2rank #3
Government expenditure% GDP17.1%rank #72
Gross capital formation% GDP22.5%rank #69
Gross savings% GDP40%rank #3
High-technology exports% manuf. exports59.4%rank #5
Human capital indexindex4.4rank #1
Industry value added% GDP22.7%rank #94
Inflation%0.9%rank #32
Labour force participation rate%70.5%rank #25
R&D expenditure% GDP1.8%rank #19
Researchers in R&Dper million8,781.7rank #3
Tax revenue% GDP13.6%rank #65
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.71rank #48
Trade openness% GDP320.3%rank #3
Unemployment% labor force2.8%rank #32
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3%rank #44
Vulnerable employment% employment9.3%rank #33
Youth unemployment% ages 15-246.8%rank #41
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-247.6%rank #46
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop100%rank #1
Child mortalityper 1000.27rank #8
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP4.5%rank #138
Infant mortalityper 1k births2.2rank #7
Life expectancyyears83.3rank #15
Maternal mortalityper 100k6rank #6
Measles immunization% children97%rank #3
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Physiciansper 1k2.8rank #54
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m315.1rank #85
Road traffic deathsper 100k2.1rank #6
Smoking prevalence% adults13.8%rank #42
Suicide mortality rateper 100k8.1rank #101
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k43rank #67
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births2.7rank #15
Education
Adult literacy%97.7%rank #9
Education spending% GDP2.2%rank #38
Expected years of schoolingyears16.7rank #29
Mean years of schoolingyears12rank #42
Primary completion rate% relevant age96.8%rank #62
Primary enrollment% gross100.2%rank #83
Secondary enrollment% gross103.1%rank #40
Tertiary enrollment% gross97.3%rank #11
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0007.4rank #184
Fertility ratebirths/woman0.97rank #195
Median age of populationyears35.1rank #83
Net migration rateper 1,0004.7rank #40
Populationpeople6.11Mrank #113
Population growth%1.2%rank #85
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years87.1rank #14
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands6,081.7rank #120
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age33.1rank #210
Urban population%100%rank #1
Climate
CO₂ emissionst53.92Mrank #55
CO₂ per capitat9.2rank #26
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0.95%rank #12
Electricity from solar% generation2.7%rank #64
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita9,750.5rank #16
Forest area% land20.9%rank #132
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita10.8rank #163
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh497.1rank #63
Renewable electricity%5.5%rank #81
Renewable energy share%1.1%rank #164
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e64.1rank #113
Society
Asylum seekerspeople212rank #39
Female labor participation%63.6%rank #26
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10027.8rank #57
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #30
Gender Inequality Index0-10.03rank #8
Homicide rateper 100k0.07rank #1
Human Development Index0-10.95rank #10
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.82rank #27
Internet users% pop94.4%rank #29
Life satisfaction0-106.6rank #34
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.62rank #81
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #1
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #1
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #1
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #2
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people5rank #155
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people43rank #17
Youth NEET rate%6.1%rank #12
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-100.8rank #3
Human hazard & exposure0-100.5rank #6
INFORM risk score0-100.7rank #1
Lack of coping capacity0-100.8rank #2
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.5rank #2
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-101rank #1
Natural hazard & exposure0-101.1rank #2
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.1rank #2
Vulnerability0-100.5rank #1
Vulnerable groups0-100.9rank #6
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