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International Visitor Arrivals by Country of Nationality

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2014

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:02 SGT

STB (Singapore Tourism Board)

International visitor arrivals by Month

Data explorer

InternationalVisitorArrivalsbyCountryofNationality.csv (1.3K rows, 42.8 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Region Text	Country of Nationality Text	International Visitor Arrivals Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013-01	Americas	Canada	13080
2013-01	Americas	USA	48815
2013-01	Americas	Other Countries in Americas	6742
2013-01	Asia	Brunei Darussalam	4709
2013-01	Asia	Indonesia	257842
2013-01	Asia	Malaysia	70860
2013-01	Asia	Myanmar	7096
2013-01	Asia	Philippines	48667
2013-01	Asia	Thailand	29867
2013-01	Asia	Vietnam	22569

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	period	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Region	region	Text	-	-
Country of Nationality	con	Text	-	Excludes Malaysian citizens coming by land.
International Visitor Arrivals	arv_count	Numeric	No. of Arrivals	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_da4276bd4f81ad917453daaefd53499b"
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 Tourism Board. (2016). International Visitor Arrivals by Country of Nationality (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_da4276bd4f81ad917453daaefd53499b/view

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Created on

28 Jun 2016

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

Agency

STB (Singapore Tourism Board)