I've been there twice, so i guess it's about 90 %. It's chinese so far i've seen along my vacation there .
Resident population size is 3.486m at end 2004. The percentage is 76% for 2004. Information available at www.singstat.gov.sg
majority population over here is chinese... the rest of the races are made up of malay, indian and eurasians.
I know some people in Singapore and they tell said that slowly, yet gradually, the Chinese 'strength' is starting to diminish, that's because there's more emphasis on English and it is more valued - especially in education, and for the future. Unlike neighboring country Malaysia, Singapore Chinese mix more with the local population there, whether its european, malay or w/e. And so, there's another way that Chinese is being lost. Next generations of overseas Chinese living in Singapore (ie. 2nd, 3rd... ) don't speak Chinese, or know very little; hence, there's also another way where chinese domain is weakening. These are not facts, but just based on word of mouth:
not all are arrogant. for those who are arrogant is b'coz they didnt learn manners from their parents.u shouldnt have said the chinese people in sg . u offending people . <_<
my cousins are from singapore.. their english isn't the best (note this is about my cousins so don't get so agiatted yet) !!! ..and on like.. games and u meet those random singaporeans.. its full of like "kiasu" .."la" .."walau" "sian" and all this other stuff.. so im not too sure that their english is improving but their mandarin is o.o
its really very depressing ... the students learned english from skl . i am so shocked that one fifth of e teachers in my skl speak proper - good english .the rest had many many grammer errors and wats more .. ? we learnt all those broken - singlish from them . its really shameful. hope e next generation wont have such problems = =
Actually, I think they speak Hokkien and Cantonese more than mandarin. The government are promoting Mandarin as an official medium for the new generation. On the other hand, most of them speak English. Seldom you use Mandarin to get around in Singapore.