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Economy

Workload Statistics Of Supreme Court, State Courts And Family Justice Courts, Annual

Data from Jan 2018 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 15 Jul 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE COURTS

Data Last Updated: 04/07/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: The number of cases disposed in a year can exceed the number of cases filed in a year as the number of cases disposed of in any year are not a subset of the cases filed in that year.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M920371

Data explorer

WorkloadStatisticsOfSupremeCourtStateCourtsAndFamilyJusticeCourtsAnnual.csv (18 rows, 2.3 KB)

Data Series
Text
2024
Numeric
2023
Numeric
2022
Numeric
2021
Numeric
2020
Numeric
2019
Numeric
2018
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
State Courts - Number Of Cases Filed (Criminal Cases)119156144147125410149505143728196647303487
State Courts - Number Of Cases Filed (Civil Cases)22945203582218729245311893904741530
State Courts - Number Of Cases Filed (Civil Cases) (Originating Processes)14416117401208616205188312466126642
State Courts - Number Of Cases Filed (Community Courts And Tribunals Cases)15274135751220112336120991426014047
State Courts - Number Of Cases Disposed Of (Criminal Cases)137522138253143878166162156129247658317203
State Courts - Number Of Cases Disposed Of (Civil Cases)22160218162450631571331933855940214
State Courts - Number Of Cases Disposed Of (Community Courts And Tribunals Cases)14420133851197313008131391379613671
State Courts - Court Dispute Resolution3930339139724994543470686897
Supreme Court - Number Of Cases Filed (Civil Jurisdiction)12954119361223813538133881526514256
Supreme Court - Number Of Cases Filed (Criminal Jurisdiction)429427430488451437524

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Title
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Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Data SeriesDataSeriesTextNumber-
20242024NumericNumber-
20232023NumericNumber-
20222022NumericNumber-
20212021NumericNumber-
20202020NumericNumber-
20192019NumericNumber-
20182018NumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_126d6f58c18f565242425800f88b34b8"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Workload Statistics Of Supreme Court, State Courts And Family Justice Courts, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_126d6f58c18f565242425800f88b34b8/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)