Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1981
Abstract
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.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Business | Race and Ethnicity
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs
Volume
3
Issue
2
First Page
148
Last Page
161
ISSN
1360-2004
Identifier
10.1080/02666958108715844
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
PANG, Eng Fong.
The Economic Status of Malay Muslims in Singapore. (1981). Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. 3, (2), 148-161.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/438
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/02666958108715844