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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jul 2025, 19:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17436

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeAgeGroupandEthnicGroupMalaysCensusofPopulation2020.csv (8 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number Text	(Malays) Total Numeric	(Malays) 5-9 Numeric	(Malays) 10-14 Numeric	(Malays) 15-19 Numeric	(Malays) 20-24 Numeric	(Malays) 25-29 Numeric	(Malays) 30-34 Numeric	(Malays) 35-39 Numeric	(Malays) 40-44 Numeric	(Malays) 45-49 Numeric	(Malays) 50-54 Numeric	(Malays) 55-59 Numeric	(Malays) 60-64 Numeric	(Malays) 65-69 Numeric	(Malays) 70-74 Numeric	(Malays) 75-79 Text	(Malays) 80-84 Text	(Malays) 85 & Over Text
(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%	(Null)12.5%	(Null)12.5%	(Null)12.5%
Total	496659	33861	32373	38177	43278	49397	43819	37419	27818	30523	35279	39835	33055	22086	14574	6594	5075	3499
English1/	193870	22458	19245	19710	19822	21505	20330	17174	12523	11203	9936	8349	5820	3039	1584	573	416	182
English Only	9416	1710	904	928	707	816	775	675	682	589	475	224	344	264	194	93	20	17
English & Malay	180932	20251	17805	18224	18809	20504	19330	16223	11450	10428	9237	8052	5448	2751	1387	480	396	158
Malay1/	301445	11373	13086	18430	23362	27767	23391	20078	15122	19023	25196	31398	27206	19036	12979	6021	4660	3317
Malay Only	72819	966	940	1607	2688	3263	2558	2354	2240	3389	5017	9092	10802	9579	7566	4238	3727	2792
Malay & English	227674	10407	12147	16823	20658	24487	20807	17657	12802	15479	20092	22268	16258	9388	5311	1743	860	487
Other Languages2/	1344	29	41	36	93	124	98	167	173	296	147	88	29	11	11	-	-	-

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
(Malays) Total	Malays_Total	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 5-9	Malays_5_9	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 10-14	Malays_10_14	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 15-19	Malays_15_19	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 20-24	Malays_20_24	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 25-29	Malays_25_29	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 30-34	Malays_30_34	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 35-39	Malays_35_39	Numeric	Number	-
(Malays) 40-44	Malays_40_44	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9e03755903940847810cd2afd9179970"
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 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9e03755903940847810cd2afd9179970/view

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Created on

22 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)