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Number of loans granted by licensed moneylenders

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:51 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Number of loans granted by licensed moneylenders per year

Number of loans granted by licensed moneylenders

Data explorer

Numberofloansgrantedbylicensedmoneylenders.csv (9 rows, 125 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
No of loans
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013331012
2014357408
2015337737
2016528653
2017443333
2018680178
2019554700
2020282453
2021309560

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
No of loansno_of_loansNumericNo. of loans-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a2d1d9b14b601f8b074370425966e8f7"
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 Law. (2017). Number of loans granted by licensed moneylenders (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 24, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a2d1d9b14b601f8b074370425966e8f7/view

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Created on

29 Aug 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MLAW (Ministry of Law)