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Visitor International Arrivals to Singapore

Total Visitor International Arrivals, Monthly

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Total Visitor International Arrivals, Monthly

Data from Jan 1978 to Nov 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:30 SGT

STB (Singapore Tourism Board)

February 1991: sharp decline due mainly to Gulf crisis.

Total international visitor arrivals by Month

Data explorer

TotalVisitorInternationalArrivalsMonthly.csv (455 rows, 6.8 KB)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Total International Visitor Arrivals
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1978-01167016
1978-02147954
1978-03163199
1978-04162400
1978-05162667
1978-06149896
1978-07175968
1978-08201355
1978-09167980
1978-10177639

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
MonthmonthMonth (YYYY-MM)--
Total International Visitor Arrivalstotal_international_visitor_arrivalsNumericNo. Of Visitor Arrivals-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_33796e0e35e57890bdd6aa34364b898d"
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.

Singapore Tourism Board. (2015). Total Visitor International Arrivals, Monthly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 1, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_33796e0e35e57890bdd6aa34364b898d/view

About this dataset

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Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

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

Agency

STB (Singapore Tourism Board)