Ethnicity of Singapore Residents Listed under "Others" in Ethnic Category

2 Ms Anthea Ong asked the Prime Minister for each year in 2017 and 2018 (a) how many Singapore residents are listed under "Others" in the ethnic category of official documents such as birth certificates and NRICs; (b) what are all the ethnicities and their numbers that make up "Others"; and (c) what is the percentage for each of the categories in the Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others (CMIO) model.

Mr Teo Chee Hean (for the Prime Minister): Table 1 below shows the ethnic composition of the Singapore citizen population in 2017 and 2018.

Table 2 below shows the number of Singapore citizens listed under the "Others" ethnic category in 2017 and 2018.

Table 3 below shows the breakdown of the six prevalent ethnicities in the citizen population under "Others", based on the latest available data from the General Household Survey of 2015.