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Number of licensed moneylending borrowers

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Number of individuals who took one loan or more from licensed moneylenders per year.

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2021

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

No of borrowers by Year

Data explorer

Numberoflicensedmoneylendingborrowers.csv (9 rows, 121 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
No of borrowers
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
201334370
201431771
201534972
201639814
201755128
201896223
2019105662
202045229
202152153
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ba12eda336e01d5b810286d282f30736"
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 licensed moneylending borrowers (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ba12eda336e01d5b810286d282f30736/view

About this dataset

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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)