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Live-Births By Ethnic Group of Parent

Data from Jan 2022 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 05 Sep 2025, 10:54 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Birth count by Year

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LiveBirthsByEthnicGroupofParent.csv (48 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Father Race Text	Mother Race Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202233.3% 202333.3% 202433.3%	(Null)0.0% MALAYS25.0% OTHERS25.0% CHINESE25.0% INDIANS25.0%	(Null)0.0% MALAYS25.0% OTHERS25.0% CHINESE25.0% INDIANS25.0%	(Null)0.0%
2022	CHINESE	CHINESE	18588
2022	CHINESE	INDIANS	88
2022	CHINESE	MALAYS	246
2022	CHINESE	OTHERS	1151
2022	INDIANS	CHINESE	313
2022	INDIANS	INDIANS	2977
2022	INDIANS	MALAYS	580
2022	INDIANS	OTHERS	201
2022	MALAYS	CHINESE	337
2022	MALAYS	INDIANS	432

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Father Race	father_race	Text	-	-
Mother Race	mother_race	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7b998114710b962723dda930e33f53a4"
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 Parent (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 16, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7b998114710b962723dda930e33f53a4/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)