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Total licensed moneylending loan quantum

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:35 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Total quantum of loans granted by licensed moneylenders per year

Data explorer

Totallicensedmoneylendingloanquantum.csv (9 rows, 119 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Amt of loans granted Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	477.8
2014	585.6
2015	646.2
2016	1181
2017	1062
2018	1429
2019	1488
2020	1103
2021	1068

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Amt of loans granted	amt_of_loans_granted	Numeric	S$ in millions	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4cf0e6b02dd7dbc8ba2a0beca9d81662/view

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Created on

29 Aug 2017

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

Agency

MLAW (Ministry of Law)