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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17439

Last updated 4 days ago (5 Sep 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeEthnicGroupandSexCensusofPopulation2020.csv (28 rows, 3.6 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Text
(Chinese) Males
Text
(Chinese) Females
Text
(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)7.1%
(Null)10.7%
(Null)7.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)28.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.1%
(Null)7.1%
(Null)17.9%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
Total3596284175078918454952658378129294913654294966592427282539303276811635471641341135665156562002
English17352428630208722221266460633830632630193870927881010821941459778696359807673861642151
English Only2294291240221054061612138688674327941650724344296911682612865291081523813870
English & Mandarin973515479517493998955664471427484237222993412944980247925021064346785965
English & Chinese Dialect1255076383061676124248632316101793488363197166803398405
English & Malay23377911282512095416499810483951809328628294650267851365913127956247804782
English & Tamil8805943109449501474110621179132872684281944450432171261
English & Other Indian Language4494921581233693553025-254333820805225331551771781
English & Other Language40004181352186986544136451896341654717201002717286681258016087
Mandarin1/10751725088375663351069450508388561061322392822035914451973504847
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2a1a771fe8515745d21ee64e43d6b46d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2a1a771fe8515745d21ee64e43d6b46d/view

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Created on

22 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)