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Deaths by Place of Occurrence and Ethnic Group

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Data from Jan 2022 to Dec 2024

Last updated 8 Sep 2025

Infant Deaths by Place of Occurrence

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DeathsbyPlaceofOccurrenceandEthnicGroup.csv (112 rows, 6.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Race Text	Place Of Occurrence Text	Infant Indicator Text	Death Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202233.9% 202332.1% 202433.9%	(Null)0.0% CHINESE27.7% MALAYS25.0% INDIANS25.0% OTHERS22.3%	(Null)0.0% Public Sector Hospitals21.4% Residence17.9% Private Sector Hospitals17.0% Other Locations11.6%	(Null)0.0% Non-Infant Death75.0% Infant Death25.0%	(Null)0.0%
2022	CHINESE	Licensed Sick Receiving Houses	Non-Infant Death	979
2022	INDIANS	Licensed Sick Receiving Houses	Non-Infant Death	48
2022	MALAYS	Licensed Sick Receiving Houses	Non-Infant Death	71
2022	OTHERS	Licensed Sick Receiving Houses	Non-Infant Death	19
2022	CHINESE	Nursing Homes & Clinics	Non-Infant Death	360
2022	INDIANS	Nursing Homes & Clinics	Non-Infant Death	19
2022	MALAYS	Nursing Homes & Clinics	Non-Infant Death	28
2022	OTHERS	Nursing Homes & Clinics	Non-Infant Death	6
2022	CHINESE	Other Locations	Non-Infant Death	345
2022	INDIANS	Other Locations	Non-Infant Death	83

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Race	race	Text	-	-
Place Of Occurrence	place_of_occurrence	Text	-	-
Infant Indicator	infant_indicator	Text	-	Infant deaths are age at death is less than 1 yrs.
Death Count	death_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_72d68941145e7092a0bd87afb2379242"
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). Deaths by Place of Occurrence and Ethnic Group (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_72d68941145e7092a0bd87afb2379242/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

06 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)