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Education

Pre-University Enrolment by Age

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Include students in Years 5 and 6 of the Integrated Programme.

(2) Include Government, Government-aided, Independent and Specialised Independent schools.

(3) Age is as at the start of the year.

Data from 1984 to 2025

Last updated 8 months ago (2 Jan 2026)

Enrolment jc by Year

Data explorer

PreUniversityEnrolmentbyAge.csv (420 rows, 9.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Age Text	Sex Text	Enrolment Jc Text
(Null)0.0% 19842.4% 19852.4% 19862.4% 19872.4%	(Null)0.0% 17 YRS20.0% 18 YRS20.0% 19 YRS20.0% UNDER 17 YRS20.0%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0%
1984	17 YRS	MF	8710
1984	17 YRS	F	4960
1984	18 YRS	MF	3927
1984	18 YRS	F	2155
1984	19 YRS	MF	1199
1984	19 YRS	F	503
1984	20 YRS & OVER	MF	74
1984	20 YRS & OVER	F	28
1984	UNDER 17 YRS	MF	7561
1984	UNDER 17 YRS	F	4206

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Enrolment Jc	enrolment_jc	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_99265ee234ba45df42c2746695fa13be"
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.

Ministry of Education. (2016). Pre-University Enrolment by Age (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_99265ee234ba45df42c2746695fa13be/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg

Created on

05 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)