Singapore

Trott Bailey Family Abundance · Country Profile

Singapore

Country profile & diagnostic reading

Tracking baselineHistorical tracking baseline
TBF Abundance Score
-43.7
Evidence before Abundance Gate +68.3

TBF Rank

#7of 243

Global standing based on life reachability

SingaporeHeld position. Previous position: #7. Current position: #7.No earlier rank movement is recorded yet.

National Abundance Gate

Money-gated

Graded status · five basics not fully cleared

Research Coverage

92%

16 / 16 categories scored

GDP Rank

#28

Shown for context, not as the abundance ranking

Money Gate 20 · Overall Gate 0.7.0

Five basics stand between this country and zero

All five basics must reach 4/4 before a country can cross zero. Money may still exist as an exchange tool; it cannot remain the permission slip for these five basics.

0.5 / 4

Food

1.0 / 4

Housing / Land

2.3 / 4

Healthcare

0.5 / 4

Transportation

0.8 / 4

Water / Energy

Money Gate score5.0 / 20 Cash-Register Lock75.0 / 100 Friction Economy Pressure31.3 / 100 Money-gated ceiling-33.1

16-category profile

All categories at a glance

Each bar uses the same −100 to +100 evidence scale. Zero is the center line. Select a scored category to jump to its full reading, sources and evidence.

Category readings & evidence

Open any category for the full diagnostic reading

9% weightHuman Time & Burden Return
+71.7

Whether productivity, infrastructure and institutions return usable lifetime to people and families.

TBFC target: Necessary contribution should not require people to sell most of their waking life merely to retain access to food, shelter, care and ordinary family life.

Access-gate research question: How much paid work or income-producing activity is required before an ordinary household can keep access to basic life, and what usable family time remains afterward?

Capacity+95.0
Reach+82.0
Friction+35.0
Return / Regeneration+70.0

Abundance Gap: +13.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

8% weightHousing, Shelter & Housing Reach
+69.3

Whether adequate shelter physically exists and actually reaches people without excessive cost, exclusion or vacancy mismatch.

TBFC target: Adequate family shelter should remain reachable without lifetime dependence on rent, mortgage debt or ability to pay.

Access-gate research question: What share of ordinary shelter access depends on rent, mortgage debt, purchase price or other recurring payment, and what dependable non-market routes exist at national scale?

Capacity+98.0
Reach+78.0
Friction+25.0
Return / Durability+75.0

Abundance Gap: +20.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

Housing, Shelter & Housing Reach

HDB creates unusual mass public housing capacity, but eligibility, prices, leases and financing mean shelter is not a universal zero-money right.

SingStat — General Household Survey 2025
9% weightFood, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
+68.5

Physical food and nutrient capacity, nourishment reach, waste/loss, public edible landscapes and free food access.

TBFC target: Nutritious food should exist in multiplying abundance and remain reachable even when a household has no money to spend.

Access-gate research question: Can people obtain adequate nutritious food when they cannot pay, and are free/public/productive-food routes large enough to be ordinary rather than exceptional?

Capacity+95.0
Reach+75.0
Friction / Waste+35.0
Return / Multiplication+65.0

Abundance Gap: +20.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

6% weightWater & Sanitation Abundance
+88.8

Safe water, sanitation, reliability, capture, reuse, storage and living-landscape water capacity.

TBFC target: Safe water and sanitation should be dependable life infrastructure, not conditional on household purchasing power.

Access-gate research question: Can households retain safe water and sanitation when income falls, and which payment, disconnection or infrastructure barriers interrupt access?

Capacity+99.0
Reach+98.0
Friction / Loss+65.0
Return / Regeneration+90.0

Abundance Gap: +1.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

Water & Sanitation Abundance

Near-universal high-quality water/sanitation access is a major strength, though bills and imported/resource vulnerability remain.

Ministry of Health — CHAS
5% weightEnergy & Household Capability
+86.3

Whether usable, reliable energy reaches households and removes burdens across water, food, health, cooling, cooking and movement.

TBFC target: Essential household energy should support cooking, cooling, water, food preservation and care without money becoming the switch that turns basic capability on or off.

Access-gate research question: Can households retain essential energy for cooking, cooling, water and food preservation when they cannot pay, and how often does price or disconnection reduce capability?

Capacity+99.0
Reach+98.0
Friction+55.0
Return / Burden Removed+90.0

Abundance Gap: +1.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

7% weightHealth & Care Reach
+79.3

Whether prevention, primary care, medicine, maternity care, dentistry and specialist capability reach people when needed.

TBFC target: Prevention, maternity, dentistry, medicine and necessary treatment should be reachable because care is needed, not because payment can be produced.

Access-gate research question: Can necessary care be obtained because it is needed, or do price, insurance, employment, debt or other financial tests materially delay or prevent access?

Capacity+98.0
Reach+88.0
Friction+45.0
Return / Prevention+85.0

Abundance Gap: +10.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

6% weightEducation & Human Capability
+87.0

Foundational learning plus practical, technical and enduring civilization capability retained by people.

TBFC target: Foundational learning and useful capability should be reachable as part of civilization life rather than purchased according to family income.

Access-gate research question: Which essential learning and capability routes are genuinely reachable regardless of family income, and where do fees, debt or paid enrichment create decisive access gaps?

Capacity+98.0
Reach+92.0
Friction+70.0
Return / Capability+85.0

Abundance Gap: +6.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

4% weightMobility & Reachability
+83.7

Local, regional and national movement that connects people to family, services, work, learning and public life without consuming excessive time.

TBFC target: Ordinary local and regional movement should be available for family, care, learning and civic life without travel becoming a paywall.

Access-gate research question: Can ordinary people reach family, care, learning and public life without high recurring fares, vehicle costs, debt or fuel dependence?

Capacity+99.0
Reach+95.0
Friction+50.0
Return / Time+88.0

Abundance Gap: +4.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

8% weightFamily Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
+15.2

Conditions that let people form stable families, raise children, share parental time and continue family life without punishing material barriers.

TBFC target: People should be able to form, continue and multiply family life. Trott Bailey Family Civilization uses 5.0 children per woman as the fertility target; 2.1 is the replacement floor, not the aspiration, while housing, care, food and time should not be withheld behind financial thresholds.

Access-gate research question: How strongly do housing, childcare, health, food and work-income requirements delay or destabilize family formation and continuity, and is total fertility moving above replacement toward the 5.0-children-per-woman civilization target?

Capacity+92.0
Reach+65.0
Friction+5.0
Return / Continuity+70.0

Abundance Gap: +27.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration. Family Formation: 60% lived environment + 40% fertility performance (-48.21).

Published indicators

Total fertility rate0.87 births per woman

Singapore Department of Statistics — Total Fertility Rate 2025 · 2025

Source

Verified evidence

Family Formation, Continuity & Child Stability

The built environment is highly supportive in capability terms, yet resident TFR fell to 0.87 in 2025, signaling profound family-formation friction. Observed TFR 0.870 (2025) is below replacement and below the TBF target of 5.0.

Singapore Department of Statistics — Total Fertility Rate 2025
5% weightLand Access & Spatial Freedom
+23.8

Whether land and settlement choice reach ordinary people rather than opportunity being functionally trapped inside expensive commercial centres.

TBFC target: Suitable productive land and settlement opportunity should not be functionally reserved for those able to outbid everyone else.

Access-gate research question: Can ordinary families gain secure use of suitable productive ground without first accumulating enough money to purchase, finance or outbid others?

Capacity+95.0
Reach+20.0
Friction / Concentration-55.0
Return / Productive Ground+45.0

Abundance Gap: +75.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

6% weightPeace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
+84.7

Peace of mind, social support, everyday safety, public beauty, recreation, nature, culture and delight reachable without constant payment.

TBFC target: Beauty, nature, recreation, rest and public delight should belong to ordinary life rather than appearing mainly after payment.

Access-gate research question: How much everyday rest, nature, recreation, culture and public beauty is freely reachable, rather than principally accessed through paid venues, travel or private property?

Capacity+95.0
Reach+90.0
Friction+65.0
Return / Delight+88.0

Abundance Gap: +5.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

6% weightLiving Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
+68.2

Whether soil, forests, wetlands, habitat, pollinators, species and water-holding landscapes are strengthening rather than being consumed.

TBFC target: Regenerating soil, water, habitat and food-bearing landscapes should be maintained as shared life-supporting capacity rather than only where a transaction makes them profitable.

Access-gate research question: Are regenerative land, water and habitat functions maintained as life-supporting infrastructure even when no direct commercial return is available?

Capacity+80.0
Reach / Ecological Function+72.0
Friction / Loss+45.0
Return / Regeneration+78.0

Abundance Gap: +8.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

5% weightJustice, Safety & Institutional Friction
+76.8

Physical safety, usable justice, legal identity, reliable public administration and low needless institutional burden.

TBFC target: Usable justice, legal identity, safety and ordinary administration should remain accessible regardless of wealth.

Access-gate research question: Do fees, legal costs, bail, fines, documentation costs or ability to hire expertise materially change access to justice, safety or public administration?

Capacity+95.0
Reach+85.0
Friction+45.0
Return / Reliability+80.0

Abundance Gap: +10.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

4% weightDurability, Repair & Material Return
+78.2

Whether useful materials, infrastructure and goods are maintained, repairable, recovered and cycled instead of repeatedly becoming waste.

TBFC target: Repair, maintenance and useful material circulation should protect capability instead of forcing repeated repurchase as the default route to continued use.

Access-gate research question: Do repair and maintenance remain practically accessible, or do pricing, proprietary restrictions and replacement incentives turn continued use into repeated purchasing?

Capacity+92.0
Reach+82.0
Friction / Waste+55.0
Return / Circularity+85.0

Abundance Gap: +10.0

TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration.

Verified evidence

6% weightInternational Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome
+51.3

How easily visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbours can enter, remain, regularize status and participate in ordinary civic and economic life.

TBFC target: A country should have a humane vision for visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbouring families: practical entry, legal identity, family continuity, protection from statelessness, a route into ordinary life and a real place to contribute and grow with the society.

Access-gate research question: Who can enter and stay, how wide is visa-free/eVisa/eTA reach, can newcomers regularize status and work, are refugees and children protected from statelessness, can families remain together, and does the country have a practical long-term vision for newcomers to join ordinary life and contribute?

Entry Accessibility+82.0
Migrant Practical Life+55.0
Refugee / Neighbour Welcome+10.0
Flexibility / Continuity+60.0
TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration. International Scoring 1.0.0; no +5 eVisa adjustment applied because >100-nationality breadth was not independently verified for this profile.

Verified evidence

International Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome

Singapore actively uses immigration to sustain population/economy, but citizenship/permanence are selective and there is no broad birthright rule.

Singapore MFA — Committee of Supply 2026
6% weightExternal Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct
+79.0

Documented effects a country, its public institutions or materially supported programs have beyond its borders: beneficial contribution, mutuality, external harm, accountability and repair.

TBFC target: A civilization should increase useful local capability beyond its borders through medicine, training, disaster help, technical cooperation, peace-building and other mutually useful contribution, while avoiding extraction, exported harm and displacement.

Access-gate research question: Do the country’s actions abroad increase health, skill, safety, resilience and locally retained capability, or do they export extraction, coercion, environmental harm, displacement, debt or other burdens?

Positive Contribution+88.0
Mutuality / Local Benefit+80.0
Documented Harm / Extraction+65.0
Accountability / Repair+85.0
TBF reading

Category Method 0.0.1: 25% Capacity, 35% Reach, 25% Friction, 15% Return/Regeneration. International Scoring 1.0.0: contribution, mutual benefit, low-harm/non-extractive conduct and accountability considered relative to capacity.

Verified evidence

External Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct

Singapore provides sustained technical cooperation and growing humanitarian assistance, including multiple Gaza aid tranches, with strong capacity-relative contribution.

Singapore MFA — Committee of Supply 2026

Trott Bailey Family Civilization Target

The end state: life beyond monetary gatekeeping

Trott Bailey Family Civilization treats money as an exchange tool rather than a prerequisite for access to life. The long-run abundance target is that food, water, shelter, care, education, mobility, land access and ordinary public life remain reachable even when a person cannot pay.

This target is an authored civilization standard. The diagnostic evidence score can now draw from all 16 weighted categories. The five-part Money Gate remains a separate domestic threshold asking whether food, housing/land, healthcare, transportation and water/energy are genuinely reachable without payment before any civilization can cross zero.

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