1963, together with the Federation of Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (now Sabah) jointly established the Federation of Malaysia, which formally announced from the Commonwealth rule. In 1965, when he was Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, and then the federal government of Malaysia see above ideology and political clashes, Singapore, Malaysia expelled from the federal and forced to become an independent sovereign state.
According to reports, Singapore since independence in 1965, economic output has increased by 189 times the per capita GDP rose from $ 512 in 1965 to $ 36,537 in 2009. Malaysia in the past 10 years the average economic growth rate of 4.7 percent, the country's per capita GDP in 2009 to $ 6975. In fact, Singapore has long surpassed the per capita GDP indicators in Malaysia, but Singapore's total population is less than Malaysia 1/5, so the total economy has not been able to achieve transcendence.
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, according to Bloomberg News, November 11, citing the Singapore government forecast that Singapore gross national product (GDP) this year will be a year-on-year increase of 15 percent, reaching $ 210 billion, is expected to exceed the $ 205 billion in Malaysia over the same period In this regard World steel pipe network editing , Singapore's former Prime Minister, the current Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in a TV interview on the 10th, begin to cry world pie network information , because this is since 1965, Singapore was expelled from the Federation of Malaysia for the first time since independence in the total economy than Malaysia.