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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 (Indians) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Oct 2025, 21:01 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/17437

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeAgeGroupandEthnicGroupIndiansCensusofPopulation2020.csv (15 rows, 2.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) 5-9
Numeric
(Indians) 10-14
Numeric
(Indians) 15-19
Numeric
(Indians) 20-24
Numeric
(Indians) 25-29
Numeric
(Indians) 30-34
Numeric
(Indians) 35-39
Numeric
(Indians) 40-44
Numeric
(Indians) 45-49
Numeric
(Indians) 50-54
Numeric
(Indians) 55-59
Numeric
(Indians) 60-64
Numeric
(Indians) 65-69
Numeric
(Indians) 70-74
Numeric
(Indians) 75-79
Numeric
(Indians) 80-84
Text
(Indians) 85 & Over
Text
(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)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
Total327681221182561424352214402255722878286143176830133252192310318275133549131371929462460
English1/1941451601617294163481497015710152461567716777157601339612437100606635411615991266838
English Only296913233255525232764229123521778208621761950167014921033849419337182
English & Malay267852005228722311956259328032199215816631421178213311212630227160128
English & Tamil8726866887426737569777774707969916575640561626004529431301870609570340
English & Other Indian Language433383210390734742601241024294125555750473415282718251117703302199189
Malay1/1970648674011791309176716971394966118715002027190116621088351267187
Malay & English14429480740106511541474150511568198751145137210547445731684262
Indian Languages112883550474646814508449985785114771391713128102708623627550543899174614131435
Tamil1/89680443060555209420941724935856010170938279587314556644363562155211211049

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Indians) TotalIndians_TotalNumericNumber-
(Indians) 5-9Indians_5_9NumericNumber-
(Indians) 10-14Indians_10_14NumericNumber-
(Indians) 15-19Indians_15_19NumericNumber-
(Indians) 20-24Indians_20_24NumericNumber-
(Indians) 25-29Indians_25_29NumericNumber-
(Indians) 30-34Indians_30_34NumericNumber-
(Indians) 35-39Indians_35_39NumericNumber-
(Indians) 40-44Indians_40_44NumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bf4888a52711f639d8354a23c58c974b"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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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 (Indians) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bf4888a52711f639d8354a23c58c974b/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)