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Health

Number of Physiotherapists

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Physiotherapists (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Registration of Allied Health professionals (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists) started in 2013.

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2022

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofPhysiotherapists.csv (27 rows, 730 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2014	Public Sector	861
2014	Private Sector	531
2014	Not in Active Practice	2
2015	Public Sector	877
2015	Private Sector	606
2015	Not in Active Practice	66
2016	Public Sector	899
2016	Private Sector	682
2016	Not in Active Practice	112
2017	Public Sector	882

Column legend

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

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_873e95590cfd9d0b3f8a6c6db6a5bc38"
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 Physiotherapists (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_873e95590cfd9d0b3f8a6c6db6a5bc38/view

About this dataset

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Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)