Reading these honestly
2026 is a partial year. Annual totals stop at 2025; what 2026 carries is what is genuinely a point reading — the mid-2026 population, the end-June 2026 unemployment rate and the mid-2026 pass-type shares — and those points are dashed.
The population is three populations, and every rate names the one it divides by. Vital rates (births, deaths, fertility) are per RESIDENT, the publisher's own definition. Murder, suicide, road deaths and every crime rate here are per EVERYONE PRESENT, because those counts cover everyone in Singapore; the same total in 2025 is 6,111,175 people against 4,204,515 residents.
Public finances are on two different year bases and are never joined. The general-government line (revenue, balance, debt, expenditure) is on calendar years from the IMF. The national budget, staged but drawn only where a panel says so, is on 1 April to 31 March and labelled by the starting year: FY2025 ran to 31 March 2026, and FY2026 is a budget estimate, not an outturn.
Gross debt is drawn gross with no asset offset, and the panel says so. The Singapore Government Securities behind it are issued to hold CPF Board liabilities and to build the reserves that fund the Net Investment Returns Contribution; the government publishes no net-debt series on any route probed, so the ratio is real and the reading of a debt crisis would not be.
There is no policy interest rate in Singapore. MAS sets the slope, width and level of the Singapore dollar's trade-weighted band, so the markets plate keeps that slot pending rather than importing the Fed funds rate or relabelling SORA, which is a money-market benchmark the publisher reports.
Trade is drawn on the national-accounts basis (goods and services) in the trade plate and on the customs basis (domestic exports plus re-exports) in the destinations panel. The two are different objects and are never mixed on one line.
The cause-of-death groups are not strictly comparable across 2012: deaths to 2011 are coded to ICD-9 and from 2012 to ICD-10. The mortality lens draws the two codings as two segments with a gap and a rule between them, never as one joined line.
2025 is the publisher's preliminary cause-of-death year. The natural-cause groups hold steady while the external causes collapse — suicides from 441 to 256, accidents, poisonings and violence from 917 to 536 — because coroner's cases were still being assigned at publication. That is not a decline and the plate says so.
The plates are drawn in the two languages this country publishes — English, which is Singapore's working official language, and Portuguese, the atlas's shared second language — and so is this page.
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