The Economic Status of Malay Muslims in Singapore

• Main Author: PANG, Eng Fong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1981
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Business; Race and Ethnicity
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/438; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/1437/viewcontent/EconomicStatusMalayMuslimsSingapore_1981.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In 1965 Singapore separated from Malaysia to become an independent secular state in a region of Islamic nations. It had then an estimated per capita income of S$ 1,600' and a population of 1.9 million people, a sixth of them Muslim. Today, after sixteen years of rapid economic progress, it has a per capita income of S$10,0002 and a population of 2.4 million people. Of the population aged ten and over in 1980, 324,000 or one-sixth are Muslim. Ninety per cent of the Muslims in Singapore are Malays, nine per cent are Indians and Pakistanis, and one per cent belong to other ethnic groups, Included in the Malay Muslim group are some 5,000 Arab Muslims.