Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2020)
What this data shows
Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 28 records. Fields include Number, (Total) Total, (Total) Males, (Total) Females (16 columns in total). Last updated 2026-09-05.
Description
Census of Population 2020 table on Singapore's resident population aged 5 years and over by the language most frequently and second most frequently spoken at home, cross-tabulated with ethnic group and sex. The 16 columns give totals plus Chinese, Malays, Indians, and other ethnic groups, each split by males and females. Data exclude persons unable to speak and those in one-person or unrelated-person households. Sociolinguists and language-policy researchers use the table to study bilingual home-language patterns in Singapore. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/17439.
Official description
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/17439
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- Rows
- 28
- Columns
- 16
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
Data
| Number | (Total) Total | (Total) Males | (Total) Females | (Chinese) Total | (Chinese) Males | (Chinese) Females | (Malays) Total | (Malays) Males | (Malays) Females | (Indians) Total | (Indians) Males |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 3596284.000000 | 1750789.000000 | 1845495.000000 | 2658378 | 1292949 | 1365429 | 496659.000000 | 242728 | 253930.000000 | 327681 | 163547 |
| English | 1735242.000000 | 863020.000000 | 872222.000000 | 1266460 | 633830 | 632630 | 193870.000000 | 92788 | 101082.000000 | 194145 | 97786 |
| English Only | 229429.000000 | 124022.000000 | 105406.000000 | 161213 | 86886 | 74327 | 9416.000000 | 5072 | 4344.000000 | 29691 | 16826 |
| English & Mandarin | 973515.000000 | 479517.000000 | 493998.000000 | 955664 | 471427 | 484237 | 2229.000000 | 934 | 1294.000000 | 4980 | 2479 |
| English & Chinese Dialect | 125507.000000 | 63830.000000 | 61676.000000 | 124248 | 63231 | 61017 | 93.000000 | 4 | 88.000000 | 363 | 197 |
| English & Malay | 233779.000000 | 112825.000000 | 120954.000000 | 16499 | 8104 | 8395 | 180932.000000 | 86282 | 94650.000000 | 26785 | 13659 |
| English & Tamil | 88059.000000 | 43109.000000 | 44950.000000 | 147 | 41 | 106 | 211.000000 | 79 | 132.000000 | 87268 | 42819 |
| English & Other Indian Language | 44949.000000 | 21581.000000 | 23369.000000 | 35 | 5 | 30 | 25.000000 | - | 25.000000 | 43338 | 20805 |
| English & Other Language | 40004.000000 | 18135.000000 | 21869.000000 | 8654 | 4136 | 4518 | 963.000000 | 416 | 547.000000 | 1720 | 1002 |
| Mandarin1/ | 1075172.000000 | 508837.000000 | 566335.000000 | 1069450 | 508388 | 561061 | 322.000000 | 39 | 282.000000 | 203 | 59 |
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Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Number | Text | No |
| (Total) Total | Numeric | No |
| (Total) Males | Numeric | No |
| (Total) Females | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Total | Text | No |
| (Chinese) Males | Text | No |
| (Chinese) Females | Text | No |
| (Malays) Total | Numeric | No |
| (Malays) Males | Text | No |
| (Malays) Females | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) Total | Text | No |
| (Indians) Males | Text | No |
| (Indians) Females | Text | No |
| (Others) Total | Numeric | No |
| (Others) Males | Text | No |
| (Others) Females | Numeric | No |