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Health

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%
2006	Public	na	3505
2006	Private	na	2966
2006	Not In Active Practice	na	460
2007	Public	na	3991
2007	Private	na	3004
2007	Not In Active Practice	na	469
2008	Public	Specialist	1723
2008	Public	Non-Specialist	2574
2008	Private	Specialist	1046
2008	Private	Non-Specialist	2005

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Specialist non-specialist	specialist_non-specialist	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	Doctors	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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 August 26, 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)