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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 03 Mar 2026, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

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 'General Household Survey 2015' (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/8221

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeResidentialStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (13 rows, 1.2 KB)

Thousands Text	(Total) Total Numeric	(Total) Males Numeric	(Total) Females Numeric	(Singapore Citizens) Total Numeric	(Singapore Citizens) Males Numeric	(Singapore Citizens) Females Numeric	(Permanent Residents) Total Numeric	(Permanent Residents) Males Numeric	(Permanent Residents) Females Numeric
(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%
Total	3530.5	1733.3	1797.3	3053.4	1523	1530.4	477.1	210.3	266.8
English	1303	659.2	643.8	1158.3	588.2	570.1	144.7	70.9	73.8
Mandarin	1231.9	592.5	639.4	1043.4	519.1	524.3	188.5	73.4	115.1
Chinese Dialects	430.3	204	226.3	398.1	190.5	207.6	32.2	13.5	18.7
Hokkien	205.3	101.9	103.4	196.4	98.3	98.2	8.8	3.6	5.2
Teochew	86.5	39.8	46.7	83.3	38.6	44.6	3.2	1.1	2.1
Cantonese	111.2	49.6	61.5	95.9	43.2	52.7	15.2	6.4	8.8
Other Chinese Dialects	27.4	12.7	14.7	22.5	10.4	12.1	4.9	2.3	2.6
Malay	378.7	186.2	192.4	364.5	182.4	182.2	14.1	3.9	10.3
Indian Languages	154.3	76	78.3	85.5	40.9	44.5	68.9	35	33.8

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
(Total) Total	Total_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Total) Males	Total_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Total) Females	Total_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore Citizens) Total	SingaporeCitizens_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore Citizens) Males	SingaporeCitizens_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore Citizens) Females	SingaporeCitizens_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Permanent Residents) Total	PermanentResidents_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Permanent Residents) Males	PermanentResidents_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Permanent Residents) Females	PermanentResidents_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7bf7d19ef832c9c60ea56adc00f3ab3e"
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. (2023). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7bf7d19ef832c9c60ea56adc00f3ab3e/view

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Created on

01 Nov 2023

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

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