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Live-Births (Single & Twins Births) by Period of Gestation, Birth Weight and Child Gender

Data from Jan 2022 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 05 Sep 2025, 11:08 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Twins Births - All gender, all birth weight

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LiveBirthsSingleTwinsBirthsbyPeriodofGestationBirthWeightandChildGender.csv (718 rows, 27.5 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Period Of Gestation Text	Birth Weight Text	Gender Text	Type Of Birth Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202231.3% 202334.8% 202433.8%	(Null)0.0% 348.6% 369.2% 379.5% 389.1%	(Null)0.0% 1500 - 199917.4% 2000 - 249915.9% 1000 - 149915.7% 2500 - 299915.5%	(Null)0.0% F50.3% M49.4% U0.3%	(Null)0.0% Single birth43.9% Twins births29.5% Single Birth22.1% Triplets births4.5%	(Null)0.0%
2022	28	0 - 999	F	Single birth	6
2022	28	0 - 999	F	Twins births	2
2022	28	0 - 999	M	Single birth	2
2022	28	1000 - 1499	F	Single birth	10
2022	28	1000 - 1499	F	Twins births	2
2022	28	1000 - 1499	M	Single birth	16
2022	28	1000 - 1499	M	Twins births	7
2022	28	1500 - 1999	F	Twins births	1
2022	28	2000 - 2499	M	Single birth	1
2022	29	0 - 999	F	Single birth	3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Period Of Gestation	period_of_gestation	Text	-	unit in weeks
Birth Weight	birth_weight	Text	-	unit in grams
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
Type Of Birth	type_of_birth	Text	-	Single or Twins
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_88039c470472a9a79da2fc662c33c48c"
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 (Single & Twins Births) by Period of Gestation, Birth Weight and Child Gender (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 24, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_88039c470472a9a79da2fc662c33c48c/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

14 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)