Singapore LGBT surveys

It is not know how many LGBT people there are in Singapore. The Census of Population, which is done once every ten years, does not keep track of this demographic. This is not surprising since even a country with much more advanced LGBT rights like the United States does not include this category in its published statistics.

In recent decades, the concern of the Singapore government has been to arrest the declining the birth rate, to maintain the proportional racial composition of the country and to increase the material well-being of its citizens. As such, the population census statistics have focused mainly on race, marriage, offspring and educational qualification, amongst more conventional demographic indices.

This situation is obviously detrimental to the rights of LGBT Singaporeans as it renders them "invisible" in population planning geared towards meeting citizens' needs. It also implies that they are not officially recognised as a valid minority the way minority races and adherents of religions are.

=See also=
 * Demographics of sexual orientation
 * LGBT demographics of the United States
 * Demographics of Singapore

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=Acknowledgements=

This article was written by Roy Tan.