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Total licensed moneylending loan quantum

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Total quantum of loans granted by licensed moneylenders per year

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2021

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

Totallicensedmoneylendingloanquantum.csv (9 rows, 119 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Amt of loans granted
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013477.8
2014585.6
2015646.2
20161181
20171062
20181429
20191488
20201103
20211068
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4cf0e6b02dd7dbc8ba2a0beca9d81662"
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.

Ministry of Law. (2017). Total licensed moneylending loan quantum (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4cf0e6b02dd7dbc8ba2a0beca9d81662/view

About this dataset

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Created on

29 Aug 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MLAW (Ministry of Law)