Live-Births, Deaths & Natural Increase by Ethnic Group from 1971 Onwards

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LiveBirthsDeathsNaturalIncreasebyEthnicGroupfrom1971Onwards.csv (216 rows, 6.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Ethnic Group Text	Live Births Numeric	Deaths Numeric	Natural Increase Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Malays25.0% Others25.0% Chinese25.0% Indians25.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1971	Chinese	35608	8787	26821
1971	Malays	7246	1464	5782
1971	Indians	3090	859	2231
1971	Others	1144	219	925
1972	Chinese	37797	8905	28892
1972	Malays	7594	1478	6116
1972	Indians	3107	895	2212
1972	Others	1180	244	936
1973	Chinese	37326	9223	28103
1973	Malays	6903	1487	5416

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Ethnic Group	ethnic_group	Text	-	-
Live Births	live_births	Numeric	-	Refers to an infant, irrespective of the duration of gestation, which after the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother, breathes or shows any other signs of life. From 1953 onwards, the figures are based on date of occurrence. Prior to 1953, they are based on date of registration.
Deaths	deaths	Numeric	-	Refers to the permanent disappearance of all signs of life of a living person at any time. Death figures referred to the number of deaths registered during the year.
Natural Increase	natural_increase	Numeric	-	Natural increase refers to the excess of births over deaths

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_16950a6230af2c42bc746a9fb85518dc"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births, Deaths & Natural Increase by Ethnic Group from 1971 Onwards (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_16950a6230af2c42bc746a9fb85518dc/view

Live-Births by Ethnic Group from 1971 Onwards

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LiveBirthsDeathsNaturalIncreasebyEthnicGroupfrom1971Onwards.csv (216 rows, 6.1 KB)

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