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Number of Illegal Immigrants Arrested from 2011 onwards

Data from Jan 2011 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:26 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Number of Illegal Immigrants Arrested from 2011 onwards

Data explorer

NumberofIllegalImmigrantsArrestedfrom2011onwards.csv (12 rows, 135 B)

Year
Numeric
Illegal Immigrants Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2011930
2012690
2013600
2014350
2015310
2016217
2017186
2018131
2019128
202057

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearNumeric--
Illegal Immigrants Countillegal_immigrants_countNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1dc58c8dc5ebd00aa4fcfa3c62ad162f"
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 Illegal Immigrants Arrested from 2011 onwards (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1dc58c8dc5ebd00aa4fcfa3c62ad162f/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

05 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)