Baby Boomers Overview
Baby boomers are categorized for those who born between 1946 until 1964 or the
following periods after World War II (BusinessDictionary). Research found that there
were roughly 1 million people in Singapore defined as the baby boomers during that
period. That sizable proportion covered roughly 30% of the total population and has
recently become the largest amount of aging population (Chan & Teng 2009). As
boomers are slightly differed with other generations, hence, need to further
comprehend in resulting better understanding about that age group.
Lifestyle
Research indicates Singaporean’s baby boomers maintaining active lifestyle.
As illustrated in the table above, activities frequently performed by boomers in order
to maximize time to prevent them from being useless during spare time. Watching TV
becoming the most popular activities done by the boomers, however, they also take
part in diverse activities. Those activities were opted to expand insight, obtain new
skills, broaden social network.
Healthy and Fitness
Singaporean baby boomers are conscious of the aging health problems that may
befall. Although boomers are strongly thoughtfulness towards health issues, they
evince strong desire to relish life and sanguine about their future health. As, boomers
also unwilling to burden their family, they retain their fitness in various ways that fit
their favor regularly.
The graph indicates high proportion boomers in practicing health methods that
classified as balanced diet category. Getting more sleep and doing more exercise are
other methods that are excluded from category mentioned, which are also important.
This reflects to the majority of the boomers are giving more attention towards their
dietary habit.
Demographic Profiling
Singaporean baby boomers are characterized into several segments such as gender,
age, income, occupation, education and race.
Age and Gender
Census
data
points
that
according to the age segment, late boomers are dominant than other boomers’ age
groups. Females reach the highest number of total baby boomers compared to males.
Income
Baby
Boomers
1,086,595
Age Group
(Years)
Singapore
Total Males Females
Total 3,870,739 1,902,410 1,968,329
0 – 4 181,369 92,528 88,841
5 – 9 205,790 104,588 101,202
10 – 14 220,832 112,959 107,837
15 – 19 247,337 126,514 120,823
20 – 24 263,918 132,902 131,016
25 – 29 265,659 129,304 136,355
30 – 34 292,287 138,954 153,333
35 – 39 302,029 144,959 157,070
40 – 44 316,023 154,320 161,703
45 – 49 308,533 153,194 155,339
50 – 54 315,503 158,734 156,769
55 – 59 288,392 144,316 144,076
60 – 64 321,502 115,217 116,285
65 – 69 161,198 78,285 82,913
70 – 74 106,815 49,438 57,377
75 – 79 76,294 33,753 42,541
80 – 84 48,418 19,515 28,903
85 & Over 38,876 12,930 25,946
This pie chart exhibits varieties of income earn by boomers which majority of them
are categorized into middle class income.
Occupation
