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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%
2019Chronic respiratory diseases3
2019Sense Organ Diseases4
2019Respiratory infections and tuberculosis5
2019Unintentional injuries5
2019Diabetes and kidney diseases6
2019Neurological Disorders6
2019Other non-communicable diseases7
2019Mental disorders8
2019Cardiovascular diseases14
2019Musculoskeletal disorders15
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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 June 11, 2026 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)