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Health

Number of Policyholders for MediShield and Integrated Shield Plans, Annual

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:53 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of MediShield Policyholders, Number of MediShield Holders with Private Integrated Shield Plans

Policyholders, Policyholders with private plans by Year

Data explorer

NumberofPolicyholdersforMediShieldandIntegratedShieldPlansAnnual.csv (16 rows, 346 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Policyholders Numeric	Policyholders with Private Plans Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)43.8%	(Null)0.0%
2006	2760000	1510000
2007	2870000	1660000
2008	3076000	1790000
2009	3299000	1930000
2010	3390000	2068000
2011	3500000	2200000
2012	3541000	2318000
2013	3593000	2404000
2014	3656000	2485000
2015	-	2548000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Policyholders	policyholders	Numeric	No. of Policyholders	Number of MediShield Policyholders, rounded off to the nearest thousand
Policyholders with Private Plans	policyholders_with_private_plans	Numeric	No. of Policyholders	Number of MediShield Policyholders with Private Integrated Shield Plans, rounded off to the nearest thousand

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a9acac29f36a10e43d4b14a793685c77"
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.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Number of Policyholders for MediShield and Integrated Shield Plans, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a9acac29f36a10e43d4b14a793685c77/view

About this dataset

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)