Statistics on national accounts provide up-to-date performance indicators for the Singapore economy.
Singapore adopts the output, expenditure, and income approaches for compiling national income aggregates. The concepts, definitions and methodologies given in the United Nations’ publication “System of National Accounts, 2008” (SNA) are closely followed. Singapore is currently reviewing the adoption of the updated 2025 SNA.
A significant improvement in the latest benchmarking of Singapore’s national accounts from reference year 2010 to 2015 is the adoption of the SNA recommendation to compile annually reweighted chain volume measures (CVM) of GDP.