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Collection: Number of Deaths and Top 10 Principal Causes

Dataset: Total Number of Deaths

Health

Total Number of Deaths

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Total number of deaths

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Total Number of Deaths

Data explorer

TotalNumberofDeaths.csv (17 rows, 205 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
No. of Deaths
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
200616393
200717140
200817222
200917101
201017610
201118027
201218481
201318938
201419393
201519862
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_53de073a60861d4e5a1272638e6e684b"
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). Total Number of Deaths (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_53de073a60861d4e5a1272638e6e684b/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

18 Feb 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)