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Live-Births by Ethnic Group of Mother and Place of Occurrence

Data from Jan 2022 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 05 Sep 2025, 10:42 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Ethnic Group of Mother - All Races

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LiveBirthsbyEthnicGroupofMotherandPlaceofOccurrence.csv (481 rows, 18.5 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mother Race Text	Place Of Birth Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2022-043.1% 2022-073.1% 2022-093.1% 2022-123.1%	(Null)0.0% MALAYS28.9% CHINESE27.2% OTHERS22.2% INDIANS21.6%	(Null)0.0% Public Sector Hospitals29.9% Private Sector Hospitals29.9% Residence24.3% Other Locations15.8%	(Null)0.0%
2022-01	CHINESE	Other Locations	1
2022-01	MALAYS	Other Locations	2
2022-01	CHINESE	Private Sector Hospitals	1165
2022-01	INDIANS	Private Sector Hospitals	113
2022-01	MALAYS	Private Sector Hospitals	97
2022-01	OTHERS	Private Sector Hospitals	201
2022-01	CHINESE	Public Sector Hospitals	625
2022-01	INDIANS	Public Sector Hospitals	215
2022-01	MALAYS	Public Sector Hospitals	589
2022-01	OTHERS	Public Sector Hospitals	106

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Mother Race	mother_race	Text	-	-
Place Of Birth	place_of_birth	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_01e099752f815ec8979684630de92788"
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.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births by Ethnic Group of Mother and Place of Occurrence (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 3, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_01e099752f815ec8979684630de92788/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

10 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)