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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Others) (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17438

Last updated 4 days ago (5 Sep 2026)

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeAgeGroupandEthnicGroupOthersCensusofPopulation2020.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) 5-9
Numeric
(Others) 10-14
Numeric
(Others) 15-19
Numeric
(Others) 20-24
Numeric
(Others) 25-29
Numeric
(Others) 30-34
Numeric
(Others) 35-39
Numeric
(Others) 40-44
Numeric
(Others) 45-49
Numeric
(Others) 50-54
Numeric
(Others) 55-59
Numeric
(Others) 60-64
Numeric
(Others) 65-69
Numeric
(Others) 70-74
Numeric
(Others) 75-79
Text
(Others) 80-84
Numeric
(Others) 85 & Over
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)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.1%
Total113566747991278721698054028283114631326813614103587283460129391893872678604
English8076765868021709654323851569773718597840165194800327821191351624521503
English Only291081960255822101624115819732461271329362738221716561163710369341320
English & Mandarin1064322862208140388853488967849342529426317251103774
English & Malay9562898818676827914950815625602562649381284202105134121
English & Other Language2/314541442243828072093124518853417476644382925167010696214281133857
Mandarin5197115501166346611061373573477571156622622-19-
Malay57061951523143794466076903843753335113643363101486991
Other Languages2/2189658290311951107639873202837144360293518158974572101006911
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e751aea72adb041727c4a20dbe31908f"
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 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Age Group and Ethnic Group (Others) (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e751aea72adb041727c4a20dbe31908f/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)