Living alone
11.5 in 100
88,400 residents · 2025
The Ageing Room
How Singapore’s
population is ageing.
Explore how Singapore is ageing—and see how your neighbourhood compares.
01 / People
Residents aged 65+, over time
Imagine 100 Singapore residents. Choose a year to see the share aged 65 or above.
Aged 65+ Under 65
Each figure represents one percentage point. Partial shading shows the decimal.
Only the listed observation years are available. Values between them are not estimated.
Population ageing raises questions about accessible services, caregiving and healthy ageing. Age alone does not tell us an individual’s health or care needs.
View figures, definitions and calculations
Residents are Singapore citizens and permanent residents; non-residents are excluded. Observations refer to end-June of the selected year. This is a population share, not a prediction about a real gathering or the same people followed over time.
| Year | Share | Source |
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The fill for icon i is clamp(share − i, 0, 1) × 100%. Text retains the published one-decimal percentage. Change is measured in percentage points: 19.5 − 12.4 = 7.1. No forecasts or estimates of future years are included.
Data checked 18 October 2026. Download the observations and provenance (JSON).
02 / Place
How old is your neighbourhood?
Choose a neighbourhood to compare its share of residents aged 65+ with Singapore overall.
The data uses official planning-area boundaries, which may differ from local neighbourhood names. Both comparisons use June 2026 data.
Both bars use the same 0–100% scale.
View boundaries, rounding and sources
Source: SingStat, Singapore Residents by Planning Area/Subzone, Single Year of Age and Sex, June 2026. Planning areas follow URA Master Plan 2025. Residents away from Singapore continuously for 12 months or longer are excluded.
Original cells are rounded to the nearest 10. We sum all single-age, sex and subzone cells within each planning area; ages 65 through “90_and_Over” form the numerator, and all ages form the denominator.
These are approximate shares derived from rounded cells, not separately published area percentages. Rounding can distort results, especially for small areas.
Areas whose rounded counts total zero are excluded from the dropdown because an age share cannot be calculated. Museum, Western Water Catchment, Southern Islands, Singapore River and Mandai are also omitted from this selector.
All 55 areas remain in the downloadable source data. National comparison uses the published 19.5%, not an average of area percentages.
A single snapshot cannot establish whether an area is ageing faster, explain why it differs, or prove a service gap. No area forecasts are presented.
Download area calculations (JSON) · Original CSV · Original source notes
03 / Behind the front door
Who older residents live with
and which activities are difficult.
Explore living arrangements and reported difficulties with everyday activities among older residents.
Showing living arrangements · 2025 survey estimates.
Per 100 residents aged 65+ in resident households
With a spouse, no children
29.0 in 100
222,800 residents · 2025
With children (with or without spouse)
51.0 in 100
392,000 residents · 2025
Only with domestic worker(s)
2.4 in 100
18,300 residents · 2025
Other arrangements
6.2 in 100
47,300 residents · 2025
Shares use the published total of 768,800. Counts are survey estimates; displayed shares are calculated and rounded. People, not households, are counted. Children includes children-in-law of any age in the same household.
About 11.5 in 100 lived alone.
Living alone does not establish isolation or lack of help. Sharing a home does not establish caregiving.
Per 100 residents aged 65+ · Residential-dwelling survey
7.8 in 100 had substantial difficulty in at least one basic activity.
“Substantial difficulty” here means unable to do the activity or experiencing a lot of difficulty—not any level of difficulty.
Getting around
5.5 in 100
Walking or climbing steps
Personal care
2.6 in 100
Washing or dressing
Remembering
2.3 in 100
Remembering or concentrating
Hearing
1.7 in 100
Hearing
Seeing
1.4 in 100
Seeing
Communicating
1.3 in 100
Understanding or being understood
2025 GHS, Charts 10.1–10.3, published pages 91–93. Institutions, including nursing homes, are excluded. Activity categories overlap; do not add the shares together. This survey population differs from the living-arrangements table: its 64,000 older residents with substantial difficulty must not be divided by 768,800 to recreate the published 7.8%.
These figures describe circumstances, not support received.
Neither view measures whether help is adequate. The views are not linked records, and national findings cannot be assigned to your selected planning area.
View survey definitions and sources
Living arrangements: SingStat annual table M810821, updated 30 June 2026; 2025 observations use the General Household Survey. Survey estimates are subject to sampling variability.
Respondents report household relationships. June 2026 revisions refined identification of children-in-law. Our “with children” category combines 272,100 with spouse and children and 119,900 with children but no spouse. Domestic-worker-only arrangements remain separate.
Activities: General Household Survey 2025, chapter 10, Charts 10.1–10.3, released 30 June 2026. We use the published 65+ percentages directly, rather than calculating them from the separate living-arrangements total.
The six measures refer to the same difficulty threshold. No care-received or unmet-need measure is inferred.
All observations here refer to 2025, not 2026. Residents include citizens and permanent residents. These are separate survey measures with different coverage; their totals are not interchangeable. Percentages are descriptive estimates, not individual predictions.
Contains information from SingStat M810821 accessed 18 October 2026 via data.gov.sg under the Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0. GHS 2025 is credited to the Singapore Department of Statistics.
Download verified inputs and provenance · Original living-arrangements API snapshot
Practical steps / Falls prevention
Check the flat for trip and slip hazards.
Use a room-by-room checklist with an older family member and agree on changes together.
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