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Economy

Convicted Penal Population By Gender And Offence Group, Annual

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 15 Mar 2026, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS - SINGAPORE PRISON SERVICE

Data Last Updated: 08/04/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M891081

Data explorer

ConvictedPenalPopulationByGenderAndOffenceGroupAnnual.csv (30 rows, 2.9 KB)

Data Series Text	2024 Numeric	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric	2015 Numeric	2014 Numeric	2013 Numeric	2012 Numeric
(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%
Total	4448	4545	5038	5945	6934	8078	8781	8885	9502	9602	9754	10042	9901
Crimes Against Person	795	735	726	702	692	701	705	655	607	560	575	603	543
Commercial Crimes	453	450	336	343	370	448	447	440	508	488	537	704	742
Crimes Against Public Order	142	146	174	171	138	145	149	126	147	129	174	175	171
Customs Offences	191	176	159	160	186	271	220	226	215	88	171	166	211
Drug Offences	2072	2299	2867	3682	4646	5420	6030	6178	6666	6675	6527	6510	6287
Immigration Offences	37	26	41	24	23	59	64	102	123	134	184	225	295
Other Offences	162	127	91	136	115	133	138	130	159	319	279	244	191
Property Crimes	471	481	579	639	712	862	970	966	1005	1136	1238	1349	1406
Traffic Offences	125	105	65	88	52	39	58	62	72	73	69	66	55

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Number Of Inmates	-
2024	2024	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2019	2019	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-
2016	2016	Numeric	Number Of Inmates	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cd58e3424885679981888e2ffb20a033"
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). Convicted Penal Population By Gender And Offence Group, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 4, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cd58e3424885679981888e2ffb20a033/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)