Top Sports & Exercise - Overall
Description
Sport Singapore CSV of the top 10 sports and exercises that residents took part in overall, with values for each National Sport & Exercise Participation Survey (NSPS) year from 2019 through 2025. Ten rows pair an activity with yearly columns, giving a compact national ranking of the most popular activities and showing how their standing changed over the period. Sport agencies, facility planners and media use it to identify mainstream activities and emerging shifts in Singapore's exercise habits.
Official description
Explore detailed datasets and insights on SportDexSG - Sport Singapore’s digital platform for sharing data across the sport and fitness ecosystem: www.sportdexsg.gov.sg This dataset presents information on the top 10 sports/exercises that participants took part in, categorised by the NSPS year. Related Resources: https://go.gov.sg/sportdexsg-topsports
- Last updated
- Coverage
- 2019-01-01 – 2025-12-31
- Rows
- 10
- Columns
- 8
Chart
Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
Data
| Activity | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| walkingoutdoor | 26.000000 | 37.000000 | 37.000000 | 40.000000 | 36.000000 | 35.000000 | 46.000000 |
| joggingrunning | 22.000000 | 28.000000 | 30.000000 | 29.000000 | 25.000000 | 25.000000 | 25.000000 |
| calisthenics | 3.000000 | 10.000000 | 13.000000 | 15.000000 | 15.000000 | 11.000000 | 7.000000 |
| swimming | 7.000000 | 6.000000 | 7.000000 | 9.000000 | 9.000000 | 9.000000 | 7.000000 |
| cycling | 5.000000 | 10.000000 | 13.000000 | 11.000000 | 7.000000 | 5.000000 | 6.000000 |
| badminton | 4.000000 | 5.000000 | 5.000000 | 6.000000 | 5.000000 | 4.000000 | 5.000000 |
| football/soccer | 3.000000 | 2.000000 | 2.000000 | 3.000000 | 3.000000 | 2.000000 | 3.000000 |
| basketball | 3.000000 | 3.000000 | 3.000000 | 3.000000 | 4.000000 | 3.000000 | 3.000000 |
| weightliftingtraining | 1.000000 | 4.000000 | 4.000000 | 4.000000 | 4.000000 | 3.000000 | 3.000000 |
| otherworkoutequipment | 5.000000 | 4.000000 | 5.000000 | 7.000000 | 6.000000 | 6.000000 | 3.000000 |
Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | Text | No |
| 2019 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2020 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2021 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2022 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2023 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2024 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| 2025 | Numeric (Percentage) | No |