SINGAPORE (April 26): Despite its size, Singapore has emerged the most connected Asia Pacific (APAC) country on LinkedIn with over a million registered members, and ranks third place globally after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Netherlands.

This comes with LinkedIn’s recent milestone of having reached the 500 million member mark – as announced by the professional networking platform in a press release on Thursday – representing a nearly six-fold growth in its membership base since the network launched its APAC headquarters in Singapore six years ago.  

Globally, LinkedIn now represents a community of professionals with over 10 million active jobs and 9 million companies.

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