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Economy

Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (Census of Population 2010)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 30/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2010, Statistical Release 1: Demographic Characteristics, Education, Language and Religion' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5995

Last updated 24 days ago (16 Aug 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeEconomicStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2010.csv (13 rows, 2.2 KB)

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(Total) Total
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(Total) Males
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(Total) Females
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(Economically Active - Total) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Total) Males
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(Economically Active - Total) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active - Working) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active - Unemployed) Females
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Total
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Males
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
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(Null)0.0%
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(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total29281781427810150036818567011053340803360177828310122217660617841841119372991071477374469697008
English871374433060438314587333321723265610563837309593254244234961213011366284041111337172704
Mandarin1064157512043552113717881392210325670690795378222312573270851398813097346276119833226443
Chinese Dialects4825502313252512252425571474659509223141814008791330111397377376223999383860156134
Hokkien237147119043118104123413793604405211747175177422945942418317591137353968374051
Teochew93811439954981643522264271709441734253401639417881087701502891756832722
Cantonese1191435408565057617833392427858590523225826795273116671064573602016137199
Other Chinese Dialects3244914201182481383977536086131617313584867844023918609644812162
Malay349121172396176724204559124883796751926761190857359111882579860841445624751397049
Indian Languages1287816358765193803815324927131764515172324728393015272403484001033838062
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bb242fe45c546218d0f602566fb084d1"
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 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (Census of Population 2010) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bb242fe45c546218d0f602566fb084d1/view

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24 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)