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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 (All Ethnic Groups) (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/17434

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeAgeGroupandEthnicGroupAllEthnicGroupsCensusofPopulation2020.csv (39 rows, 5.8 KB)

Number Text	(Total) Total Numeric	(Total) 5-9 Text	(Total) 10-14 Text	(Total) 15-19 Text	(Total) 20-24 Numeric	(Total) 25-29 Numeric	(Total) 30-34 Numeric	(Total) 35-39 Numeric	(Total) 40-44 Numeric	(Total) 45-49 Numeric	(Total) 50-54 Numeric	(Total) 55-59 Numeric	(Total) 60-64 Numeric	(Total) 65-69 Numeric	(Total) 70-74 Numeric	(Total) 75-79 Numeric	(Total) 80-84 Numeric	(Total) 85 & Over Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)7.7%	(Null)5.1%	(Null)2.6%	(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)2.6%
Total	3596284	200512	204538	217210	237114	270550	280904	276706	273829	286039	270864	280287	258772	204163	152169	79583	56422	46623
English	1735242	151292	150654	149149	149810	152671	143839	134314	137551	134077	111709	99633	90890	60137	39283	15558	9187	5488
English Only	229429	20054	18170	19986	20176	21223	19249	14044	13436	15131	13980	14292	13931	10017	8071	3816	2234	1618
English & Mandarin	973515	94378	95241	90703	91448	89489	83330	78826	84296	79388	60228	46681	39318	22300	11711	3782	1703	693
English & Chinese Dialect	125507	738	1060	1941	3124	4533	4302	4594	6016	8745	11994	16062	20706	17536	13306	5713	3240	1897
English & Malay	233779	23760	21520	22033	22588	25137	24602	20848	15519	13860	12252	11575	8559	5274	3142	1216	1211	683
English & Tamil	88059	6784	7475	7422	7039	7837	7127	7009	6675	6451	6201	6036	5301	3198	1935	644	570	353
English & Other Indian Language	44949	3304	4000	3610	2732	2492	2548	4254	5669	5162	3536	2931	2034	1193	742	325	206	213
English & Other Language	40004	2273	3188	3454	2702	1959	2682	4739	5940	5341	3519	2056	1041	618	376	63	23	31
Mandarin1/	1075172	30175	30693	38694	53590	77517	97578	96650	88510	93780	95028	105685	93811	76319	51362	24168	14036	7573

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
(Total) Total	Total_Total	Numeric	Number	-
(Total) 5-9	Total_5_9	Text	Number	-
(Total) 10-14	Total_10_14	Text	Number	-
(Total) 15-19	Total_15_19	Text	Number	-
(Total) 20-24	Total_20_24	Numeric	Number	-
(Total) 25-29	Total_25_29	Numeric	Number	-
(Total) 30-34	Total_30_34	Numeric	Number	-
(Total) 35-39	Total_35_39	Numeric	Number	-
(Total) 40-44	Total_40_44	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ad4a8ccbdab03d16c486a9ee6988289d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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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 (All Ethnic Groups) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ad4a8ccbdab03d16c486a9ee6988289d/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)