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Number of Doctors

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:34 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Doctors (Specialist, Non-specialist / Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Includes doctors registered under Temporary Registration for service provision from Year 2010 onwards.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofDoctors.csv (96 rows, 3.3 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sector
Text
Specialist non-specialist
Text
Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)0.0%
2006Publicna3505
2006Privatena2966
2006Not In Active Practicena460
2007Publicna3991
2007Privatena3004
2007Not In Active Practicena469
2008PublicSpecialist1723
2008PublicNon-Specialist2574
2008PrivateSpecialist1046
2008PrivateNon-Specialist2005

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SectorsectorText--
Specialist non-specialistspecialist_non-specialistText--
CountcountNumericDoctors-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4a15de043d48bf829b6d97c6068bbf03"
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 Doctors (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4a15de043d48bf829b6d97c6068bbf03/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)