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Number of Overstayers arrested from 2011 onwards

Data from Jan 2011 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:19 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Number of Overstayers arrested from 2011 onwards

Data explorer

NumberofOverstayersarrestedfrom2011onwards.csv (12 rows, 137 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Overstayers Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2011	2180
2012	1890
2013	1930
2014	1690
2015	1591
2016	1061
2017	990
2018	940
2019	804
2020	416

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Overstayers Count	overstayers_count	Numeric	-	-

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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_2ac273742e11d302b033432b8d1a7e32"
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). Number of Overstayers arrested from 2011 onwards (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 31, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2ac273742e11d302b033432b8d1a7e32/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

06 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)