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Health

Medisave Accounts and Balances, Annual

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:29 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Medisave Accounts, Total Medisave Balance, Average Balance per Account, Amount Withdrawn for Direct Medical Expenses

Chart (Total Medisave Balance)

Data explorer

MedisaveAccountsandBalancesAnnual.csv (16 rows, 518 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No of Accounts Numeric	Total Balance Numeric	Average Balance Numeric	Amount Withdrawn Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	2700000	36.9	13600	445
2007	2800000	39.3	14100	517
2008	2900000	42.4	14900	558
2009	2900000	45.8	15700	601
2010	3000000	50.2	16900	678
2011	3000000	54.8	18200	722
2012	3100000	60	19400	767
2013	3200000	64.9	20600	798
2014	3200000	70.5	21800	853
2015	3300000	75.9	22700	900

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
No of Accounts	no_of_accounts	Numeric	Accounts	Number of Medisave Accounts, rounded off to the nearest hundred thousand
Total Balance	total_balance	Numeric	S$ Billion	Total Medisave balances
Average Balance	average_balance	Numeric	S$	Average Balance per Account
Amount Withdrawn	amount_withdrawn	Numeric	S$ Million	Amount Withdrawn For Direct Medical Expenses

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2ed23324aeac97609c4e16299ab05ffc"
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). Medisave Accounts and Balances, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 6, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2ed23324aeac97609c4e16299ab05ffc/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

07 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)