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Education

Primary Enrolment by Age

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Age is as at the start of the year.

Data from 1984 to 2025

Last updated 8 months ago (2 Jan 2026)

Enrolment primary by Year

Data explorer

PrimaryEnrolmentbyAge.csv (756 rows, 16.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Age Text	Sex Text	Enrolment Primary Text
(Null)0.0% 19842.4% 19852.4% 19862.4% 19872.4%	(Null)0.0% 7 YRS11.1% 8 YRS11.1% 9 YRS11.1% 10 YRS11.1%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0%
1984	10 YRS	MF	46582
1984	10 YRS	F	22440
1984	11 YRS	MF	47525
1984	11 YRS	F	22834
1984	12 YRS	MF	14694
1984	12 YRS	F	6028
1984	13 YRS	MF	10256
1984	13 YRS	F	3926
1984	14 YRS & OVER	MF	5323
1984	14 YRS & OVER	F	1569

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Enrolment Primary	enrolment_primary	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7771c5bbc6cd7e6f6a8460c4739c313c"
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 Education. (2016). Primary Enrolment by Age (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7771c5bbc6cd7e6f6a8460c4739c313c/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg

Created on

04 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)