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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Literate In, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 17 Jun 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/10/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/publications-and-methodology).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/6563

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageLiterateInMaritalStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (20 rows, 2.9 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Single) Total
Numeric
(Single) Males
Numeric
(Single) Females
Numeric
(Married) Total
Numeric
(Married) Males
Numeric
(Married) Females
Numeric
(Widowed) Total
Text
(Widowed) Males
Text
(Widowed) Females
Text
(Divorced/Separated) Total
Text
(Divorced/Separated) Males
Text
(Divorced/Separated) Females
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)5.0%
(Null)5.0%
(Null)5.0%
(Null)5.0%
(Null)5.0%
(Null)5.0%
Total249463012297581264872760352413343347010154324677095677229112923722581106657617942287938915
Not Literate1858654224014362419526116217905100385260557433060026323556792592713304598
Literate2308766118751811212487408264017223391051442861744901697961692111934649865558672155034317
One Language Only101530251470850059517784910351774332749492384448365044561941427341921317671246819298
Chinese Only5803692845462958236886444069247954546492231862314633846999902848018386730111085
English Only3538011992171545841022255531246913233095137305957898295229560001018643045882
Malay Only62721240473867457763432234448112184342967861531430472326807501929
Tamil Only152936438885486362124211379521161682650515213540191309
Non-Official Language Only31194602660121833822583121946627435831142193
Two Languages Only1244466646549597917549701291823257878659149341131318018124534882757123164871414450

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Single) TotalSingle_TotalNumericNumber-
(Single) MalesSingle_MalesNumericNumber-
(Single) FemalesSingle_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Married) TotalMarried_TotalNumericNumber-
(Married) MalesMarried_MalesNumericNumber-
(Married) FemalesMarried_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cf8a80d01cb3063f8eb59c37d306fe08"
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 15 Years and Over by Language Literate In, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cf8a80d01cb3063f8eb59c37d306fe08/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)