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Cause of death by age group

Data from Jan 2024 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 08 Sep 2025, 08:50 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Cause of death by age group

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Causeofdeathbyagegroup.csv (1K rows, 120.4 KB)

YEAR
Year (YYYY)
ICD MAIN CATEGORY
Text
ICD DETAILED CATEGORY
Text
GENDER
Text (Gender)
DEATH AGE
Text
DEATH COUNT
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
2024100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1-026-Neplasms(C00-D48)34.3%
1-064-Diseases of the circulatory system(I00-I99)12.4%
1-095-External causes of morbidity and mortality(V01-Y89)9.9%
1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)9.3%
(Null)0.0%
1-094-Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified(R00-R99)3.1%
1-074-Pneumonia(J12-J18)2.8%
1-061-Remainder of diseases of the nervous system(G04-G25,G31-G98)2.7%
1-045-Leukaemia(C91-C95)2.5%
(Null)0.0%
M50.9%
F48.9%
U0.2%
(Null)0.0%
75 - 799.5%
80 - 849.4%
65 - 699.2%
50 - 599.2%
(Null)0.0%
123.5%
210.3%
35.5%
45.0%
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F50 - 592
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F60 - 641
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F70 - 741
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F80 - 843
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F85 - 891
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)F90 and Over1
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)M50 - 591
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)M60 - 641
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)M65 - 692
20241-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)M80 - 844

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YEARYEARYear (YYYY)--
ICD MAIN CATEGORYICD_MAIN_CATEGORYText--
ICD DETAILED CATEGORYICD_DETAILED_CATEGORYText--
GENDERGENDERText (Gender)--
DEATH AGEDEATH_AGEText--
DEATH COUNTDEATH_COUNTNumeric--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_716c31ea00d7c05d43d4109d8b0db3bb"
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.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Cause of death by age group (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_716c31ea00d7c05d43d4109d8b0db3bb/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

23 Feb 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)