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Live-Births By Ethnic Group Of Father And Sex Of Child

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Live birth by Ethnic Group of Father and Sex of Child

Data from Jan 2022 to Dec 2024

Last updated 5 Sep 2025

Birth count by Month

Data explorer

LiveBirthsByEthnicGroupOfFatherAndSexOfChild.csv (290 rows, 6.4 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Father Race Text	Child Gender Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2024-053.1% 2024-103.1% 2022-012.8% 2022-022.8%	(Null)0.0% MALAYS25.2% INDIANS25.2% OTHERS24.8% CHINESE24.8%	(Null)0.0% F49.7% M49.7% U0.7%	(Null)0.0%
2022-01	CHINESE	M	914
2022-01	CHINESE	F	862
2022-01	INDIANS	M	175
2022-01	INDIANS	F	188
2022-01	MALAYS	M	349
2022-01	MALAYS	F	342
2022-01	OTHERS	M	154
2022-01	OTHERS	F	138
2022-02	CHINESE	M	822
2022-02	CHINESE	F	782

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Father Race	father_race	Text	-	-
Child Gender	child_gender	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_50f55922b78f0a9eb7ce877e8604a5c0"
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.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births By Ethnic Group Of Father And Sex Of Child (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_50f55922b78f0a9eb7ce877e8604a5c0/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

02 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)