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Economy

Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jun 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17459

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligionEthnicGroupandSexCensusofPopulation2020.csv (12 rows, 1.7 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Numeric
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Text
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Males
Numeric
(Indians) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) 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)8.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total3459093166356017955342606881124896213579194477472163632313832990561505411485151054104769357717
No Religion69252835607133645766909734316432593316407099316443384126021534783576990
With Religion27665661307489145907719377849057981031986446107215655230452292612146700145912900633933650726
Buddhism107415951249356166610521145053905467244471283192031103799519566593813628
Taoism1/303960149247154713303095149162153933133-13363491466935634
Islam53925126313427611711953591460394423682141112282576996435870340951496672397727
Hinduism17296386414865484581233352231111121713268573885588956443513
Sikhism1205161965855115680404010265527949861695872823
Christianity654355285382368973562861241905320956274312131530376051802919576511462423526911
Catholic242681106084136597184158785521056061097492605218531034811504355731669218881

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MalesChinese_MalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) FemalesChinese_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalesMalays_MalesTextNumber-
(Malays) FemalesMalays_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4f6dc35cb00308f67bf9d429cfa30e65"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 23, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4f6dc35cb00308f67bf9d429cfa30e65/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)