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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 15 Aug 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 06/10/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/6358

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligionResidentialStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (12 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Total
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Males
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Females
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Total
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Males
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Females
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%
Total249463012297581264872226533311236131141721229297106145123152
No Religion370094197926172168324369175076149293457252285022875
With Religion212453610318321092704194096494853799242718357283295100276
Buddhism1060662521253539409969592481468488124910703978551285
Taoism/Chinese Traditional Beliefs212344107077105267201381102181992011096348966066
Islam37166018585618580435305917770917535018601814710454
Hinduism999045078349120777353887638858221691190710262
Sikhism9733471050238609430443051124406717
Christianity364087159135204952325211141360183851388751777521101
Catholic118980529016607910653147364591671244955376912

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Singapore Citizens) TotalSingaporeCitizens_TotalNumericNumber-
(Singapore Citizens) MalesSingaporeCitizens_MalesNumericNumber-
(Singapore Citizens) FemalesSingaporeCitizens_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Permanent Residents) TotalPermanentResidents_TotalNumericNumber-
(Permanent Residents) MalesPermanentResidents_MalesNumericNumber-
(Permanent Residents) FemalesPermanentResidents_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d283ac0f9765a1230056b81a617634b8"
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 Religion, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 7, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d283ac0f9765a1230056b81a617634b8/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)