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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jul 2025, 19:01 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

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17435

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeAgeGroupandEthnicGroupChineseCensusofPopulation2020.csv (26 rows, 4 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) 5-9
Text
(Chinese) 10-14
Text
(Chinese) 15-19
Text
(Chinese) 20-24
Numeric
(Chinese) 25-29
Numeric
(Chinese) 30-34
Numeric
(Chinese) 35-39
Numeric
(Chinese) 40-44
Numeric
(Chinese) 45-49
Numeric
(Chinese) 50-54
Numeric
(Chinese) 55-59
Numeric
(Chinese) 60-64
Numeric
(Chinese) 65-69
Numeric
(Chinese) 70-74
Numeric
(Chinese) 75-79
Numeric
(Chinese) 80-84
Numeric
(Chinese) 85 & Over
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.5%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)3.8%
(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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total2658378137054137424145960165416193194205924199211200974211770200008210066202841165785126572683984772240059
English1/126646010623210609310599510958611160410256694092996539871381858740477173248344322321276269843966
English Only1612131315112153143251508216958141509130795694298816101801043975566318293415361099
English & Mandarin955664909039164088252899168833781881775748342678697596294632939092221941168937191696689
English & Chinese Dialect124248738104419023106449241904549592385531184415992205381738513203568332311875
English & Malay16499607610903996112715191611128511671032109213981028922405521276
Mandarin1/10694503004430596385595349576969963939525687868932169440810550693749762925134024168140177573
Mandarin Only238036431542756518948816320219251798716016194722214827824236251955214225750242982546
Mandarin & English52706625146253382966239779520206205162961550774992739976331532357915356807429601382624
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect3008565399012328415985181223814068163662358631895442034619741149288621347681064266

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) 5-9Chinese_5_9TextNumber-
(Chinese) 10-14Chinese_10_14TextNumber-
(Chinese) 15-19Chinese_15_19TextNumber-
(Chinese) 20-24Chinese_20_24NumericNumber-
(Chinese) 25-29Chinese_25_29NumericNumber-
(Chinese) 30-34Chinese_30_34NumericNumber-
(Chinese) 35-39Chinese_35_39NumericNumber-
(Chinese) 40-44Chinese_40_44NumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_68860ef451f948e62754a830b6ae5024"
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 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_68860ef451f948e62754a830b6ae5024/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)