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Health

Distribution of Disability-Adjusted Life Years by Broad Cause Group

Data from Jan 2019 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:46 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Data refers to Singapore residents

Source : Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 Study

Total of 1,047,768 life-years lost due to mortality and ill-health in 2019.

*Next update for data on i) Daily Smoking and ii) Hyperlipidaemia, Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity will be from i) NPHS 2019 which will be ready in late 2020 and ii) NPHS 2020 which will be ready in 2021 respectively.

Distribution of Disability-Adjusted Life Years by Broad Cause Group

Data explorer

DistributionofDisabilityAdjustedLifeYearsbyBroadCauseGroup.csv (12 rows, 401 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Broad cause group Text	Percentage Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2019	Chronic respiratory diseases	3
2019	Sense Organ Diseases	4
2019	Respiratory infections and tuberculosis	5
2019	Unintentional injuries	5
2019	Diabetes and kidney diseases	6
2019	Neurological Disorders	6
2019	Other non-communicable diseases	7
2019	Mental disorders	8
2019	Cardiovascular diseases	14
2019	Musculoskeletal disorders	15

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Broad cause group	broad_cause_group	Text	-	-
Percentage	percentage	Numeric (Percentage)	-	share of total DALYs

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8a4d2f7fb02654f4cc8b624587fd57ba"
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). Distribution of Disability-Adjusted Life Years by Broad Cause Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8a4d2f7fb02654f4cc8b624587fd57ba/view

About this dataset

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Created on

15 Feb 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)