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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 16 Jun 2025, 21:01 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/5953

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyAgeGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2000.csv (17 rows, 2.1 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects - Total
Numeric
Chinese Dialects - Hokkien
Numeric
Chinese Dialects - Teochew
Numeric
Chinese Dialects - Cantonese
Numeric
Chinese Dialects - Other Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
Indian Languages - Total
Numeric
Indian Languages - Tamil
Numeric
Indian Languages - Other Indian Languages
Numeric
Others
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%
Total288755266508710105396872723295831415691637035241840654911087791015198627228
5 - 92563078726410516358052334939221631748165942278841537488
10 - 1423618469067103707917639691518327941045461819769891208576
15 - 192110164814599107183089229319252885983771172306342887516
20 - 24198142373598773339072199137945963715782719864055553852375
25 - 29248887517219232764587326391260015458389130083967777811896492
30 - 342723767069794730580112939610300138634452352341282799232904877
35 - 39298137793561074215491827985101741253042294234013205105262679897
40 - 4429040078945104912561692944610708124783538385441107892371841752
45 - 49245251568249097658852301351155014294287329453834270591283803

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
EnglishEnglishNumericNumber-
MandarinMandarinNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects - TotalChineseDialects_TotalNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects - HokkienChineseDialects_HokkienNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects - TeochewChineseDialects_TeochewNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects - CantoneseChineseDialects_CantoneseNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects - Other Chinese DialectsChineseDialects_OtherChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
MalayMalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9cd455cd11757c496b1ad6de57fc7291"
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 and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9cd455cd11757c496b1ad6de57fc7291/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)