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Overall SPS Population

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

This will includes incare population and community corrections population.

Data from 2017 to 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (25 May 2026)

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OverallSPSPopulation.csv (27 rows, 671 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Types Of Population Text	Number Of Population Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Total33.3% Incare33.3% Community Corrections33.3%	(Null)0.0%
2017	Incare	10948
2017	Community Corrections	1688
2017	Total	12636
2018	Incare	10809
2018	Community Corrections	1998
2018	Total	12807
2019	Incare	10570
2019	Community Corrections	2415
2019	Total	12985
2020	Incare	9242

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Types Of Population	types_of_population	Text	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c1fcecb3467c7151de6863391cdb4846"
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.

Singapore Prison Service. (2026). Overall SPS Population (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c1fcecb3467c7151de6863391cdb4846/view

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Created on

25 May 2026

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)