With average life expectancy at 82 years, Singapore maintains the fourth-best life expectancy rate in the world based on the latest World Health Organisation figures. In a 2013 article for the Wall Street Journal titled “Wealth Over the Edge: Singapore”, author Shibani Mahtani writes “And then there are, of course, your average millionaires - more of whom can be ... |
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found among Singapore’s resident population than anywhere in the world. According to Boston Consulting Group, the island had 188,000 millionaire households in 2011 - slightly more than 17 percent of its resident households - which effectively means one in six homes has disposable private wealth of at least $1 million, excluding property, business and luxury goods.” |