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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%
2005	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	401638
2006	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	421904
2007	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	451745
2008	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	476634
2009	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	497116
2010	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	511125
2011	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	520614
2012	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	535233
2013	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	540063
2014	Cars and Station-wagons	Private cars	536882

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Number	number	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 15, 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)