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Health

Healthcare Professional to Population Ratio

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:31 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

No per thousand by Year

Data explorer

HealthcareProfessionaltoPopulationRatio.csv (85 rows, 2.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Profession Text	No. Per Thousand Numeric	Ratio to Population Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)2.4%	(Null)2.4%
2006	Doctors	1.6	0.482638889
2006	Nurses	4.8	0.1875
2006	Dentists	0.3	1:3,199
2006	Pharmacists	0.3	1:3,097
2006	Optometrists and Opticians	na	-
2007	Doctors	1.6	0.472916667
2007	Nurses	4.9	0.184027778
2007	Dentists	0.3	1:3,247
2007	Pharmacists	0.3	1:3,094
2007	Optometrists and Opticians	na	-

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Profession	profession	Text	-	-
No. Per Thousand	no_per_1000	Numeric	Per Thousand	-
Ratio to Population	ratio_to_population	Text	-	Number of healthcare professionals to population ratio. Figures for doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists are rounded off to the nearest tens.

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_391082b04c131ce998277673fbd2fe13"
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). Healthcare Professional to Population Ratio (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 28, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_391082b04c131ce998277673fbd2fe13/view

About this dataset

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Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)