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Environment

Air Pollutant - Particulate Matter PM2.5

Data from Jan 2002 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 18 Feb 2025, 13:52 SGT

NEA (National Environment Agency)

PM2.5 annual mean. Unit of measure for readings is µg/m3.

Data explorer

AirPollutantParticulateMatterPM2.5.csv (23 rows, 223 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Pm2.5 Mean Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2002	23
2003	19
2004	21
2005	21
2006	23
2007	19
2008	16
2009	19
2010	17
2011	17

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Pm2.5 Mean	pm25_mean	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_397fe8de643aea9927bdee32e49307ff"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Environment Agency. (2015). Air Pollutant - Particulate Matter PM2.5 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_397fe8de643aea9927bdee32e49307ff/view

About this dataset

Contact

Maye_WOO@nea.gov.sg

Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

NEA (National Environment Agency)