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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2010)

Last updated: 16 Jun 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2010, Statistical Release 1: Demographic Characteristics, Education, Language and Religion' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/publications-and-methodology).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5979

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyAgeGroupEthnicGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2010.csv (18 rows, 2.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) English
Numeric
(Chinese) Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects
Numeric
(Chinese) Others*
Numeric
(Malays) English
Numeric
(Malays) Malay
Numeric
(Malays) Others*
Text
(Indians) English
Numeric
(Indians) Malay
Numeric
(Indians) Tamil
Numeric
(Indians) Other Indian Languages
Numeric
(Indians) Others*
Numeric
(Others) English
Numeric
(Others) Malay
Numeric
(Others) Others*
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total8246161206556485765106257809037956715531250762383911027439755164369661477737256
5 - 97893662020191160610339265711071362515429026365516280413312758
10 - 14853858492225325351068633772511251819237087228211865394232472
15 - 19846691008645066624945740519771222825076113134117940404771759
20 - 24620009853679007147498370737294232502601110557326784871450
25 - 2950372107035165731258588730153145927821199225372416439474063769
30 - 345974911169925855149469572111927710725150013798761714975322686788
35 - 3975114111113318331239757422598337118211337134297029232102852636494
40 - 44721641035123295080662512871718611270141410362458419388643234925
45 - 497129311355939131740599436392951078819448839269713562173153467

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) EnglishChinese_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MandarinChinese_MandarinNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Chinese DialectsChinese_ChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Others*Chinese_OthersNumericNumber-
(Malays) EnglishMalays_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalayMalays_MalayNumericNumber-
(Malays) Others*Malays_OthersTextNumber-
(Indians) EnglishIndians_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Indians) MalayIndians_MalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7b684629244ce1e6b22a0abff5c650a7"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2010) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7b684629244ce1e6b22a0abff5c650a7/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)