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Credit and Charge Card Statistics

Credit and Charge Card Statistics, Annual

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Credit and Charge Card Statistics, Annual

Data from Jan 1989 to Dec 2014

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:43 SGT

MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)

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CreditandChargeCardStatisticsAnnual.csv (26 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Cards - Main Numeric	Cards - Supplementary Numeric	Total Billings Numeric	Rollover Balance Numeric	Bad Debts Written Off Numeric	Charge Off Rates Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1989	418634	213103	1971.4	178.1	9.6	10.6
1990	534346	276362	2715.6	294.9	11.5	4.9
1991	683620	326186	3381.6	433	20.1	5.7
1992	716196	346415	3944.8	537.8	24	5
1993	838029	417613	4605.9	622.4	24.9	4.3
1994	964359	485665	5475.6	705.3	21.6	3.3
1995	1059408	536408	6152.8	825.5	19.8	2.6
1996	1117131	577394	6985.9	893.6	24	2.8
1997	1241104	626354	7915.1	1035.3	31.6	3.4
1998	1369089	681508	7689.1	1113.4	53.6	5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Cards - Main	cards_main	Numeric	No. of Cards	-
Cards - Supplementary	cards_supplementary	Numeric	No. of Cards	-
Total Billings	total_billings	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Rollover Balance	rollover_balance	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Bad Debts Written Off	bad_debts_written_off	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Charge Off Rates	charge_off_rates	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7a747bbf23166674020989ce7af0e72e"
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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Monetary Authority of Singapore. (2015). Credit and Charge Card Statistics, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7a747bbf23166674020989ce7af0e72e/view

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Created on

19 Oct 2015

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

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MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)