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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5961

Last updated 25 days ago (15 Aug 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeResidentialStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Total
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Males
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Females
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Total
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Males
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total288755214334691454083264468813217251322963242865111744131120
English665087334047331041610041305969304072550462807726968
Mandarin10105394921805183598998674433054565621106724887561797
Chinese Dialects687272344807342465651854329208322646354181559819820
Hokkien3295831720261575573176371668961507411194651316816
Teochew1415696964571924138834686537018127349921742
Cantonese163703777648593814753470334772011616874318738
Other Chinese Dialects524182537127047478492332624523456920452524
Malay4065492037652027853938561993161945401269344498244
Indian Languages1108775520755670855914215043441252861305712229
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_36976050a8241ee80b280da974e154eb"
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 Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_36976050a8241ee80b280da974e154eb/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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