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Number of Deaths and Top 10 Principal Causes

Updated 5 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Total number of deaths and principal causes of death

Death figures referred to the number of deaths registered during the year.

The Mortality Tabulation List of the International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision has replaced the Ninth Revision as the adopted code set for the derivation of causes of death w.e.f Year 2012.

Refers to the top 10 principal causes of death only.

2 related datasets

Related datasets are grouped into a collection based on themes, topics or common attributes for easier access and exploration. All datasets within a collection are published and managed by the same agency.

Principal Causes of Death

CSV5 months ago

Coverage: Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Total Number of Deaths

CSV5 months ago

Coverage: Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the metadata for this collection. 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
          
collection_id = 516          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())