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Health

Government Health Expenditure

Data from Apr 2006 to Mar 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:53 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Operating and Development Expenditure for the Ministry of Health, Government Health Expenditure (in million dollars, as a percentage of GDP and as a percentage of Total Government Expenditure)

Government Health Expenditure includes expenditure from endowment funds and excludes government transfers

Total Government Expenditure excludes special transfers

Operating and Development Expenditure on Health

Data explorer

GovernmentHealthExpenditure.csv (15 rows, 486 B)

Financial year Financial Year (YYYY)	Operating Expenditure Numeric	Development Expenditure Numeric	Government Health Expenditure Numeric	Percentage of GDP Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	1840	96	2009.7	0.9
2007	2019	185	2283.2	0.8
2008	2379	336	2814.1	1
2009	2920	711	3745.8	1.3
2010	3258	485	3856.7	1.2
2011	3489	453	4091.5	1.2
2012	4066	605	4837.3	1.3
2013	5044	723	5938.1	1.6
2014	5872	1147	7223.1	1.8
2015	7520	1413	8639.9	2.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial year	financial_year	Financial Year (YYYY)	-	-
Operating Expenditure	operating_expenditure	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Development Expenditure	development_expenditure	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Government Health Expenditure	government_health_expenditure	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Percentage of GDP	percentage_gdp	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Government Health Expenditure as a percentage of GDP

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_abdadf4fc69bf0c8140a2a593e6aa7c7"
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). Government Health Expenditure (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_abdadf4fc69bf0c8140a2a593e6aa7c7/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

18 Feb 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)