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Health

Number of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:35 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners (Active Practice, Not in Active Practice). Registration of TCM physicians started in 2002.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofTraditionalChineseMedicinePractitioners.csv (34 rows, 1005 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Active Practice	1727
2006	Not in Active Practice	219
2007	Active Practice	1794
2007	Not in Active Practice	256
2008	Active Practice	1846
2008	Not in Active Practice	321
2009	Active Practice	1932
2009	Not in Active Practice	271
2010	Active Practice	1974
2010	Not in Active Practice	348

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	TCM Practitioners	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4ebf4bf4ffde39c5fff542729e8f5161"
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 Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4ebf4bf4ffde39c5fff542729e8f5161/view

About this dataset

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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)