Singapore has more single adults than at any point in its recorded history, and the numbers moved sharply in the last five years. This report pulls together the official data released in 2026, explains what each figure means for someone actually dating here, and sets out what we are measuring next.
All figures below come from the Singapore Department of Statistics: the General Household Survey 2025 (released 30 June 2026), the Statistics on Marriages and Divorces 2025 report (released 10 July 2026), and the Ministry of Social and Family Development's family trends reporting. Everything is sourced and dated. Where we are inferring rather than measuring, we say so.
The headline numbers
| Metric | Latest figure | Five years earlier |
|---|---|---|
| Single women aged 25 to 29 | 73.4% (2025) | 69.0% (2020) |
| Single men aged 25 to 29 | 85.9% (2025) | 81.6% (2020) |
| Single men aged 30 to 34 | 47.6% (2025) | 41.9% (2020) |
| Marriages registered | 24,688 (2025) | 26,328 (2024) |
| Median age at first marriage, grooms | 31.1 (2025) | 30.3 (2015) |
| Median age at first marriage, brides | 29.6 (2025) | 28.2 (2015) |
| Divorces and annulments | 7,242 (2025) | 7,382 (2024) |
| Resident population | 4.2 million (2025) | — |
Singlehood is rising fastest in the exact ages people are dating
The General Household Survey is Singapore's mid-decade national survey, sitting between the ten-yearly censuses, and the 2025 edition recorded the largest increases in singlehood among people aged 25 to 34.
Among resident women aged 25 to 29, 73.4 per cent were single in 2025, up from 69.0 per cent in 2020. Among men in that band, the figure rose from 81.6 per cent to 85.9 per cent. The single sharpest movement anywhere in the data was men aged 30 to 34: 47.6 per cent single in 2025, up from 41.9 per cent five years earlier.
What this means if you are dating here. Nearly half of men in their early 30s and roughly three in four women in their late 20s are unmarried. The most common complaint we hear, that "everyone is already taken," is not supported by the data. The pool is large and it has grown. What has changed is not availability but visibility: people are single for longer, later, and in a city where work absorbs the hours that dating used to occupy.
This is the core insight behind our guide to how to meet singles in Singapore. Singapore does not have a scarcity problem. It has a routing problem.
Marriage is getting later, and the rate is falling
24,688 marriages were registered in 2025, a 6.2 per cent decline from 26,328 in 2024. The average across 2023 to 2025 was 26,442 a year, below the 27,156 averaged between 2016 and 2019, confirming a longer-term downward trend rather than a one-year dip.
Marriage rates fell over the decade too. In 2025 there were 39.1 marriages per thousand unmarried men aged 15 to 49, down from 44.2 in 2015. Among unmarried women in the same age band the rate fell to 38.1 per thousand, from 41.1.
The median age at first marriage reached 31.1 for grooms and 29.6 for brides in 2025, up from 30.3 and 28.2 respectively a decade earlier, and unchanged from 2024.
What this means if you are dating here. The window most people treat as "the dating years" has shifted roughly a year later per decade. If you are 32 and single, you are not behind; you are near the median. This is the statistical backdrop to our dating in Singapore after 30 playbook, and it is worth internalising, because a great deal of the social pressure people feel here is calibrated to a timeline the country stopped following about fifteen years ago.
Divorce is falling, and later marriages are proving more durable
7,242 marriages ended in divorce or annulment in 2025, down 1.9 per cent from 7,382 in 2024. Divorce rates declined over the decade: 6.1 dissolutions per thousand married men aged 20 and over in 2025, down from 7.1 in 2015, and 5.8 per thousand married women, down from 6.6.
More striking is the cohort data. The proportion of resident marriages dissolving before their tenth anniversary fell from 17 per cent for couples who married in 2005 to 13.5 per cent for the 2014 cohort. Marriages are most vulnerable between the fifth and tenth year, and couples married five to nine years accounted for 27.6 per cent of all divorces in 2025.
What this means if you are dating here. Later marriage correlates with more durable marriage in the Singapore data. The trade-off people worry about, that waiting longer means settling for less, is not visible in these numbers. If anything the opposite pattern shows up: the cohorts marrying later are staying married longer.
Education splits the picture, in opposite directions by sex
The GHS 2025 found singlehood patterns that run in opposite directions for men and women.
| Group | Single, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Men 40 to 49, secondary qualification or below | 18.9% |
| Men 40 to 49, university qualification | 13.8% |
| Women 40 to 49, university qualification | 16.5% |
| Women 40 to 49, secondary qualification or below | 9.6% |
| Women 30 to 39, university qualification | 30.0% |
| Women 30 to 39, secondary qualification or below | 15.5% |
Among men, lower educational attainment is associated with higher singlehood. Among women, the reverse: university-educated women aged 30 to 39 were single at roughly twice the rate of women with secondary qualifications or below.
What this means if you are dating here. This is the most practically useful split in the entire dataset, because it describes a real and persistent mismatch in the market. A large cohort of graduate women in their 30s is dating in a pool where conventional assortative preferences run against them. Two responses show up repeatedly in how people actually date: widening the filters that do not matter, and tightening the ones that do. Our after-30 playbook covers the two-or-three non-negotiables approach for exactly this reason.
Ethnicity and household structure
Singlehood and later marriage remained more prevalent among Chinese residents than Malay or Indian residents. Among residents aged 30 to 39 in 2025, 38.0 per cent of Chinese men and 30.7 per cent of Chinese women were single, compared with 28.7 per cent of Malay men.
Married-couple households with children remain the most common household type in Singapore but their share fell from 50.4 per cent of resident households in 2020 to 47.6 per cent in 2025. Singapore's total fertility rate stood at 0.87 in 2024, a record low.
What the official data does not tell you
This is the important part, and it is where most statistics posts stop.
Government data tells you about marriage. It tells you almost nothing about dating. There is no official figure for how far a Singaporean will travel for a first date, what proportion of app matches ever meet in person, how long people wait before asking someone out, which neighbourhoods people actually choose for first dates, or why promising conversations die.
Those are the questions that determine whether a given evening goes well, and they are entirely unmeasured. The commercial "dating surveys" that circulate are usually small, methodologically opaque, or run by companies with a product to sell and no published methodology.
So we are going to measure them, and publish the method alongside the results.
The SingCupid Dating Report: what we are measuring
We are running a survey of SingCupid members and the wider Singapore dating public, covering:
- Distance tolerance. How far people will genuinely travel for a first date, by region and by age. Our working hypothesis, based on what members tell us, is that this is the single most underrated cause of failed matches in Singapore.
- First date preferences. What people actually want to do, versus what they get invited to.
- Dating goals. The distribution across friendship, casual dating, serious relationships and activity partners.
- First-message preferences. What openers people respond to, and what they delete.
- Biggest frustrations. Ranked, by age band and by sex.
- Preferred age ranges. Stated versus revealed.
- Online versus offline preference. Where people would rather meet, and where they actually do.
- Neighbourhood patterns. Which areas people choose for dates, and which they avoid.
Our commitments on methodology. We will publish the sample size, the fielding dates, the exact question wording, and the demographic composition of respondents. We will state clearly that a survey of one platform's members is not a representative sample of Singapore, because it is not. We will not round a small sample up into a national claim, and we will not publish a percentage without the base it was calculated from. If the sample is too small to support a breakdown, we will say so rather than report it.
That last paragraph is the whole point. Anyone can publish a dating statistic. Publishing one that a journalist can check is a different exercise, and it is the only version worth doing.
If you would like to take part, the survey opens to members first. Joining SingCupid is free, and members will receive the survey link along with the results before publication.
For journalists and researchers
The official figures in this report are all public and citable at source: SingStat's General Household Survey 2025, the Statistics on Marriages and Divorces 2025 publication, and data.gov.sg's datasets on the proportion of singles among the resident and citizen populations.
If you are covering dating, singlehood or family formation in Singapore and want the underlying data from our forthcoming survey, including cross-tabs we have not published, contact support@singcupid.com. We will share the raw aggregates and the questionnaire.
Frequently asked questions
How many single people are there in Singapore? As of the 2025 General Household Survey, 85.9 per cent of resident men and 73.4 per cent of resident women aged 25 to 29 were never married, along with 47.6 per cent of men aged 30 to 34. Singapore's resident population stood at 4.2 million in 2025.
What is the average age of marriage in Singapore? The median age at first marriage in 2025 was 31.1 for grooms and 29.6 for brides.
Is singlehood increasing in Singapore? Yes, and the increases between 2020 and 2025 were sharpest among residents aged 25 to 34.
Is the divorce rate rising in Singapore? No. Divorce rates fell over the past decade for both men and women, and recent marriage cohorts have proven more durable than earlier ones.
Why do so many Singaporeans say it is hard to date here? The data suggests the difficulty is not availability. Working hypotheses include time pressure, distance and transport friction across the island, and mismatched intent between people who never state what they are looking for. The first is structural, but the second and third are addressable, which is why SingCupid organises profiles by region and neighbourhood and asks every member to state their objective on their profile.
When is the SingCupid Dating Report being published? Fielding opens to members first. Results, methodology and sample composition will be published in full on this blog.
Last updated: September 2026. Sources: Singapore Department of Statistics, General Household Survey 2025 and Statistics on Marriages and Divorces 2025; Ministry of Social and Family Development, Family Trends Report.
