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Resident And Citizen Live-Births By Birth Order, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 13 Jul 2025, 22:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: REGISTRY OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS

Data Last Updated: 07/05/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: Figures may not add up to the total due to birth order not reported. Data are based on date of occurrence. For births registered from 29 May 2022 onwards, birth order statistics are based solely on declared information.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M810761

Data explorer

ResidentAndCitizenLiveBirthsByBirthOrderAnnual.csv (12 rows, 3.5 KB)

Data Series Text	2024 Numeric	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric	2015 Numeric	2014 Numeric	2013 Numeric	2012 Numeric	2011 Numeric	2010 Numeric	2009 Numeric	2008 Numeric	2007 Numeric	2006 Numeric	2005 Numeric	2004 Numeric	2003 Numeric	2002 Numeric	2001 Numeric	2000 Numeric	1999 Numeric	1998 Numeric	1997 Numeric	1996 Numeric	1995 Numeric	1994 Numeric	1993 Numeric	1992 Numeric	1991 Numeric	1990 Numeric
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Resident Live-Births By Birth Order	30808	30518	32290	34183	34233	35330	35040	35444	36875	37861	37967	35681	38641	36178	35129	36925	37277	37074	36272	35528	35135	35474	38555	39281	44765	41327	41636	45356	46707	46916	48075	48739	47907	47805	49787
1st Order	14338	14134	15036	15456	15989	16461	16178	16352	17070	17915	17970	17176	18569	17180	16710	17264	17675	17005	16372	16002	15658	15465	16514	16621	18935	17835	17945	18558	18977	19404	19807	20041	19662	19085	19766
2nd Order	11027	10870	11187	12361	11810	12416	12397	12688	13309	13314	13816	12484	13767	12959	12390	12946	12938	13135	12948	12555	12599	12686	14058	13686	16124	14469	14288	16378	16812	16650	17122	17276	16861	17098	17764
3rd Order	3664	3719	4123	4345	4320	4401	4441	4380	4539	4731	4482	4268	4568	4356	4299	4717	4708	4878	4952	4936	4826	5260	5714	6338	6860	6386	6688	7662	8041	8019	8310	8509	8596	8735	9374
4th Order	1110	1145	1245	1329	1370	1323	1362	1306	1330	1332	1171	1211	1214	1211	1224	1391	1412	1490	1432	1486	1435	1446	1608	1858	2046	1902	2029	2109	2233	2155	2173	2235	2159	2235	2202
5th And Higher Order	669	645	683	692	744	729	662	718	627	569	528	542	523	472	506	607	544	566	568	549	617	617	661	778	800	735	686	649	644	688	663	678	629	652	677
Citizen Live-Births By Birth Order	29237	28877	30429	31713	31816	32844	32413	32356	33167	33725	33193	31017	33238	30946	30131	31842	32423	32361	31956	31706	31694	32294	35337	36402	41617	38727	39214	43014	44513	44992	46228	47002	46477	46625	48820
1st Order	13519	13342	14040	14117	14720	15203	14928	14814	15337	15887	15546	14832	15764	14523	14127	14628	15129	14700	14365	14242	14048	13969	15078	15301	17503	16576	16741	17500	17956	18529	18914	19207	18966	18553	19356
2nd Order	10446	10184	10546	11503	10978	11513	11344	11481	11769	11632	11911	10608	11676	10919	10444	10991	11101	11254	11124	10915	11136	11385	12677	12514	14838	13476	13432	15456	15989	15899	16440	16671	16391	16682	17421
3rd Order	3520	3586	3950	4113	4072	4131	4166	4102	4172	4375	4098	3887	4136	3908	3910	4309	4302	4439	4548	4593	4506	4923	5362	6017	6501	6094	6378	7368	7754	7785	8070	8259	8375	8550	9211

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Number	-
2024	2024	Numeric	Number	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Number	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Number	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Number	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Number	-
2019	2019	Numeric	Number	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Number	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Number	-
2016	2016	Numeric	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2f8073d5dda91ee3f8f89d6f1fb40cb7"
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 And Citizen Live-Births By Birth Order, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2f8073d5dda91ee3f8f89d6f1fb40cb7/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)