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Sample Household Survey: Age of HDB Resident Population, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Ethnic Group

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HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Ethnic Group

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:29 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

No of persons by Ethnic group

Data explorer

HDBResidentPopulationAged15YearsandAbovebyEthnicGroup.csv (12 rows, 257 B)

SHS Year
Year (YYYY)
Ethnic Group
Text
No. of Persons
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008Chinese1815000
2008Malay364000
2008Indian187000
2008Others37000
2013Chinese1907000
2013Malay380000
2013Indian209000
2013Others48000
2018Chinese1920000
2018Malay400000

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
SHS Yearshs_yearYear (YYYY)--
Ethnic Groupethnic_groupText--
No. of PersonsnumberNumericNo. of Persons-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2f840db99e6aa00de54447a1ed81e597"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2f840db99e6aa00de54447a1ed81e597/view

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Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)