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Transport

Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Type

Data from Jan 2005 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 08 Jul 2025, 15:02 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)
  • Off peak cars include weekend cars and revised off peak cars which was implemented on 25 Jan 2010.
  • LGV (max laden weight <= 3.5mt), HGV (max laden weight 3.5mt - 16mt), VHGV (max laden weight > 16mt). Tax exempted vehicles include vehicles registered with exemption of road tax payment, vehicles for off-the-road use and engineering plants,

School Bus (CB): School Bus with "CB" suffix registration numbers.

MVP 01-01 Veh by type

Visit https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/static-data.html for more information

Number by Year

Data explorer

AnnualMotorVehiclePopulationbyVehicleType.csv (412 rows, 20.1 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Category
Text
Type
Text
Number
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
20135.1%
20145.1%
20155.1%
20165.1%
(Null)0.0%
Cars and Station-wagons27.2%
Buses24.3%
Tax Exempted Vehicles19.4%
Goods and Other Vehicles19.4%
(Null)0.0%
Buses4.9%
Taxis4.9%
Omnibuses4.9%
Company cars4.9%
(Null)0.0%
2005Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars401638
2006Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars421904
2007Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars451745
2008Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars476634
2009Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars497116
2010Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars511125
2011Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars520614
2012Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars535233
2013Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars540063
2014Cars and Station-wagonsPrivate cars536882

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
CategorycategoryText--
TypetypeText--
NumbernumberNumeric--
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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_2873f3b1b2a836103f51f696350b98fa"
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.

Land Transport Authority. (2016). Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Type (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2873f3b1b2a836103f51f696350b98fa/view

About this dataset

Contact

LTA-Vehicle_Stat@lta.gov.sg

Created on

25 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)