Reading guide

About & Methodology

This site presents official statistics about the Malay and Muslim community in Singapore, compiled by AMP Singapore from the General Household Survey (GHS) 2025 by the Department of Statistics (DOS). Changes since 2020 use the Census of Population 2020. It is the online edition of the booklet "Singapore Malay/Muslim Community in Figures".

Two lenses, clearly labelled

MALAY figures count people by ethnic group (all ages).
MUSLIM figures count people by religion, collected for residents aged 15 and over only, so Muslim figures never include children below 15.

Most Muslims are Malay, but not all, and nearly all Malays are Muslim; the two groups are close but never identical. Muslim household statistics do not exist, because DOS classifies households by the ethnic group of the household reference person only; Malay household figures are the closest available proxy.

Accuracy method

Every figure was extracted programmatically from DOS statistical tables and passed a three-layer audit: (1) machine comparison of all 21,061 values against source files, (2) cross-checks against figures quoted in the printed GHS report, and (3) blind re-extraction of sampled tables. Where the printed report quotes a figure, the printed figure is used. On this site, an automated verification step additionally checks every number rendered on every page against the audited dataset before each deployment.

Rounding. DOS rounds survey estimates to the nearest 100. Percentages derived from rounded counts may differ from DOS-quoted figures by up to ±0.2 percentage points, and distributions may not sum to exactly 100%. Every distribution chart shows its total.

Words used on this site

"Residents" are Singapore citizens and permanent residents. "PMET" means professionals, managers, executives and technicians. "Owner-occupied" means the home is owned by someone in the household. Census 2020 "income from work" and GHS 2025 "employment income" are the same concept under different names.

What is not on this site

School examination results, Muslim marriage and divorce registrations, health and drug statistics come from other agencies (MOE, ROMM, MOH, CNB) and are outside the GHS. Transport and disability data in GHS 2025 carry no ethnic breakdown.

AMP Singapore

Association of Muslim Professionals · www.amp.org.sg
Primary source: Department of Statistics Singapore, General Household Survey 2025 (released 30 June 2026, ISBN 978-981-94-6592-7) and Census of Population 2020, retrieved from the SingStat Table Builder.