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Number of Charities by Sector

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

This dataset is published in the Commissioner of Charities Annual Report which contains the number of charities sorted annually by sector

Number of Charities By Sector

Data explorer

NumberofCharitiesbySector.csv (64 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Primary Sector
Text
Value
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2020Arts & Heritage161
2020Community93
2020Education126
2020Health147
2020Religious1072
2020Others225
2020Social & Welfare427
2020Sports70
2021Arts & Heritage163
2021Community93

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Primary Sectorlevel_1Text-Primary Sector of the charities
ValuevalueNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2018). Number of Charities by Sector (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 30, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

23 Nov 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)