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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: 05 Jun 2026, 20:00 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%
Total4966593386132373381774327849397438193741927818305233527939835330552208614574659450753499
English1/19387022458192451971019822215052033017174125231120399368349582030391584573416182
English Only94161710904928707816775675682589475224344264194932017
English & Malay18093220251178051822418809205041933016223114501042892378052544827511387480396158
Malay1/3014451137313086184302336227767233912007815122190232519631398272061903612979602146603317
Malay Only728199669401607268832632558235422403389501790921080295797566423837272792
Malay & English227674104071214716823206582448720807176571280215479200922226816258938853111743860487
Other Languages2/1344294136931249816717329614788291111---
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

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) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 22, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9e03755903940847810cd2afd9179970/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)