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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 15 Jul 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: 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/5958

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeEconomicStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 2.2 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active - Total) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Total) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active - Total) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Females
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Total
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Males
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) 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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total23950611178059121700215045119004376040751416102851685564417884104875239658890550277623612928
English50875625271225604436814320526716287635234119740415493815802786379391406134744693167
Mandarin80166838455841711052287430122022165449647828840020807826396128201357627879483338195456
Chinese Dialects6722913365223357693755352379491375863472212193451278762831418604971029675698573198184
Hokkien3232811686001546811870931229666412717160811239159217154861057549101361874563490554
Teochew1391126833370778741614746026701692144429124923494631691778649512087444077
Cantonese1582087464883560895965215437442835754854035035602136142407686132249446118
Other Chinese Dialects51691249402675024685153699316228231412387011862124661527006957117434
Malay312924155192157732178143117132610111646161095465507113527758659411347813806096720
Indian Languages93258461544710456201365351966552043347251731841581810234837058961927439

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Total) TotalEconomicallyActive_Total_TotalNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Total) MalesEconomicallyActive_Total_MalesNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Total) FemalesEconomicallyActive_Total_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Working) TotalEconomicallyActive_Working_TotalNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Working) MalesEconomicallyActive_Working_MalesNumericNumber-
(Economically Active - Working) FemalesEconomicallyActive_Working_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8875606c671be731a6072511372f9f39"
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. (2024). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8875606c671be731a6072511372f9f39/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)