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Number of Deaths and Top 10 Principal Causes

Principal Causes of Death

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Principal Causes of Death

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:34 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Top 10 principal causes of death

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.

Principal Causes of Death

Data explorer

PrincipalCausesofDeath.csv (172 rows, 9.5 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Rank Text	ICD Text	Classification Text	Disease or Condition Text	Percentage of Deaths Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	1	ICD9	140-208	Cancer	28.5
2006	2	ICD9	410-414	Ischaemic Heart Disease	18.5
2006	3	ICD9	480-486	Pneumonia	13.7
2006	4	ICD9	430-438	Cerebrovascular Disease (including stroke)	8.9
2006	5	ICD9	E800-E999	Accidents, Poisoning & Violence	6.3
2006	6	ICD9	393-398, 402, 415-429	Other Heart Diseases	4.3
2006	7	ICD9	250	Diabetes Mellitus	3.3
2006	8	ICD9	490-493, 496	Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease	3.3
2006	9	ICD9	599	Urinary Tract Infection	2
2006	10	ICD9	580-589	Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome & Nephrosis	1.7

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Rank	rank	Text	-	-
ICD	icd	Text	-	-
Classification	classification	Text	-	ICD codes classified under the disease or condition
Disease or Condition	disease_condition	Text	-	-
Percentage of Deaths	percentage_deaths	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Percentage of total deaths

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_48143a2b16027afcadeb362352b0266a"
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. (2017). Principal Causes of Death (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_48143a2b16027afcadeb362352b0266a/view

About this dataset

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Created on

18 Feb 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)