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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over Born Outside Singapore by Religion, Year of First Arrival and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 15 Aug 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/6361

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverBornOutsideSingaporebyReligionYearofFirstArrivalandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (12 rows, 2.6 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Before 1941) Total
Numeric
(Before 1941) Males
Numeric
(Before 1941) Females
Numeric
(1941 - 1950) Total
Numeric
(1941 - 1950) Males
Numeric
(1941 - 1950) Females
Numeric
(1951 - 1960) Total
Numeric
(1951 - 1960) Males
Numeric
(1951 - 1960) Females
Numeric
(1961 - 1970) Total
Numeric
(1961 - 1970) Males
Numeric
(1961 - 1970) Females
Numeric
(1971 - 1980) Total
Numeric
(1971 - 1980) Males
Numeric
(1971 - 1980) Females
Numeric
(1981 - 1990) Total
Numeric
(1981 - 1990) Males
Numeric
(1981 - 1990) Females
Numeric
(1991 - 2000) Total
Numeric
(1991 - 2000) Males
Numeric
(1991 - 2000) Females
Numeric
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Total5249262309442939825160923523280866073330176305578148838431430575363722020316176489228997358958891837037518811236505076072890
No Religion8468343632410524831316716656390406223288820514636746403331230919231515840731460070627538344091572518684
With Religion440242187312252931467782035626422543432611428230726673328539383472341870828526556612383931822743182997544343892413503554206
Buddhism2246629076913389326497108921560526402120811432132815139161889923735951314222322821399218290430661686426201398631350926354
Taoism/Chinese Traditional Beliefs411321683224300770734694237651631293387823335194714436115732787512420683057528719643323390411092795
Islam5057124628259434070230817629435534340921435679296426721233383874418816442544467617592917663423074327
Hinduism401852042219763179111056853388184715416593378028133625129323323369146019094517211124061690288268076
Sikhism3409118222271919110051419731788636851841274338411135276328112215668205462
Christianity7863832681459576354239439607934341545199571368358887735288548501006844125656161677034913220809885711951
Catholic25941107651517619957701225274412221521351914322087270510331672297212851687480819552853719930684131

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Before 1941) TotalBefore1941_TotalNumericNumber-
(Before 1941) MalesBefore1941_MalesNumericNumber-
(Before 1941) FemalesBefore1941_FemalesNumericNumber-
(1941 - 1950) Total1941_1950_TotalNumericNumber-
(1941 - 1950) Males1941_1950_MalesNumericNumber-
(1941 - 1950) Females1941_1950_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2b3e288a867c53ba464f39ae045a4b26"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over Born Outside Singapore by Religion, Year of First Arrival and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2b3e288a867c53ba464f39ae045a4b26/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)