The increase in proportion of singles was highest among women aged 25 to 29 and men aged 30 to 34
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenCNAPublished: 3:50pm, 30 Jun 2026More Singapore residents aged below 40 had never married in 2025 than in 2020, government data released on Tuesday showed, with the sharpest increases among those aged 25 to 34.The findings come from the Department of Statistics’ General Household Survey, Singapore’s mid-decade national household survey conducted between the once-a-decade Population Census.
The survey also found that women who had been married had fewer children on average than five years earlier; English strengthened its position as the language most frequently spoken at home; and a larger share of residents reported having no religious affiliation.
Singapore’s resident population stood at 4.2 million in 2025.
Among female residents aged 25 to 29, the proportion who were never married rose from 69 per cent in 2020 to 73.4 per cent in 2025, the largest increase among female residents.
Among men, the biggest increase was among those aged 30 to 34, where the proportion who had never married rose from 41.9 per cent to 47.6 per cent.
