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Convicted Penal Population by Age Group and Offence Group (2020 onwards)

Data from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022Updated 10 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Population of convicted penal inmates as at 31 December 2022 breakdown by age group and offence group. Age group are revised in 2020 in accordance to the national statistical standards.

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ConvictedPenalPopulationbyAgeGroupandOffenceGroup2020onwards.csv (189 rows, 6.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population by age group Text	Population by main offence group Text	Number of population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	19 & below	Crimes Against Person	28
2020	19 & below	Commercial Crimes	10
2020	19 & below	Crimes Against Public Order	16
2020	19 & below	Customs Offences	0
2020	19 & below	Drug Offences	47
2020	19 & below	Immigration Offences	0
2020	19 & below	Other Offences	6
2020	19 & below	Property Crimes	58
2020	19 & below	Traffic Offences	1
2020	20-29	Crimes Against Person	161

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Population by age group	population_by_age_group	Text	-	-
Population by main offence group	population_by_main_offence_group	Text	-	-
Number of population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_59777f3591055755f3bfb7630735fbf4"
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 Prison Service. (2023). Convicted Penal Population by Age Group and Offence Group (2020 onwards) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_59777f3591055755f3bfb7630735fbf4/view

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Created on

23 Mar 2023

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)