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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 15 Jul 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 06/10/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/6355

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligionEthnicGroupandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (12 rows, 1.7 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Text
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Text
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Text
(Indians) Males
Text
(Indians) Females
Text
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Text
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)16.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)0.0%
Total249463012297581264872196935796790610014513151981553741598231791879226286925308881421616673
No Religion3700941979261721683664471958661705801656996987639347249613511145
With Religion21245361031832109270416029107720408308703150331553051597281782019162386578283931286515528
Buddhism10606625212535394091055093519506535588179521281166619547422310773146
Taoism/Chinese Traditional Beliefs21234410707710526721226810707710519016na16nanana61na61
Islam371660185856185804506326872376313780154836158944459272494020987689133933498
Hinduism9990450783491201805812345540993285052848800351193158
Sikhism9733471050235na5381424962646704956642638
Christianity3640871591352049523249561401151848429653985672170210629110731646379938470
Catholic118980529016607995316416025371440715824912223590063231103452425793

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MalesChinese_MalesTextNumber-
(Chinese) FemalesChinese_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalesMalays_MalesTextNumber-
(Malays) FemalesMalays_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_285988f6622425f3f2d72ebb6ec5aba9"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_285988f6622425f3f2d72ebb6ec5aba9/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)