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Economy

Death And Death Rates, Annual

Data from Jan 1960 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 01 Jan 2026, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: IMMIGRATION AND CHECKPOINTS AUTHORITY, SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: For more information, please refer to the 'Population Trends' publication (www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/population/population-trends). For more information on Infant Mortality Rate and and Related Indicators, please refer to the Statistics Singapore Newsletter on 'Trends in Infant Mortality Rate and and Related Indicators' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/death-and-life-expectancy/publications-and-methodology). For more information on Age-Standardised Death Rate, please refer to the Statistics Singapore Newsletter on 'Age-Standardsed Death Rate for Singapore' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/death-and-life-expectancy/publications-and-methodology). Please refer to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Global Metadata (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata) for more information on SDG 3.2.1 and 3.2.2.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M810481

Data explorer

DeathAndDeathRatesAnnual.csv (14 rows, 6.4 KB)

Data Series Text	2024 Numeric	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric	2015 Numeric	2014 Numeric	2013 Numeric	2012 Numeric	2011 Numeric	2010 Numeric	2009 Numeric	2008 Numeric	2007 Numeric	2006 Numeric	2005 Numeric	2004 Numeric	2003 Numeric	2002 Numeric	2001 Numeric	2000 Numeric	1999 Numeric	1998 Numeric	1997 Numeric	1996 Numeric	1995 Numeric	1994 Numeric	1993 Numeric	1992 Numeric	1991 Numeric	1990 Numeric	1989 Numeric	1988 Numeric	1987 Numeric	1986 Numeric	1985 Numeric	1984 Numeric	1983 Numeric	1982 Numeric	1981 Numeric	1980 Numeric	1979 Text	1978 Text	1977 Text	1976 Text	1975 Text	1974 Text	1973 Text	1972 Text	1971 Text	1970 Text	1969 Text	1968 Text	1967 Text	1966 Text	1965 Text	1964 Text	1963 Text	1962 Text	1961 Text	1960 Text
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Crude Death Rate	6	6.2	6.3	5.8	5.2	5	5	5	4.8	4.8	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.5	4.7	4.8	4.7	4.6	4.7	4.6	4.7	4.9	4.9	4.7	4.6	4.9	4.8	5	4.9	4.9	4.9	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.2	5	5.5	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.7	5.6	5.8	5.9	6.2
Infant Mortality Rate	2.3	2.2	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	2.1	2.2	2.4	1.7	1.8	2	1.8	2	2	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.6	2.1	2	2.5	2.9	2.2	2.5	3.3	4.1	3.6	3.6	3.8	4.1	4.7	4.8	5.4	6.6	6.3	5.5	5.5	6.1	7.6	7.3	8.8	9.6	8.2	8	13.2	12.6	12.4	11.6	13.9	16.8	20.3	19.2	20.1	20.5	20.9	23.4	24.8	25.8	26.3	29.9	28.1	31.2	32.3	34.9
Infant Mortality Rate - Males	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.6	2.1	1.8	2.3	2	2.3	2.2	1.9	1.8	2	2.3	1.9	2.6	2.6	2.6	2.8	2.4	2.2	2.8	3.4	2.4	2.8	3.2	4.1	4	3.5	4.3	4.3	5	5.2	5.8	7.1	6.5	5.6	6	6.1	8.3	7.5	9.7	11.6	9	8.3	14.3	14.9	14.6	13.7	15.9	19.7	23.7	22.6	22.5	22.2	23.3	25.5	27.2	28.3	30.5	33.6	32.5	36.3	35.7	37.9
Infant Mortality Rate - Females	2.8	2.6	1.6	1.9	1.4	1.6	1.9	2.4	2.5	1.2	1.7	2.1	1.6	1.7	2.1	1.7	1.7	1.5	2.4	1.7	1.8	2.2	2.3	2.1	2.2	3.4	4.1	3.1	3.5	3.2	4	4.3	4.4	4.8	6.2	6	5.4	4.9	6	6.8	7	7.9	7.3	7.4	7.7	12	10.1	9.9	9.4	11.6	13.6	16.4	15.6	17.6	18.7	18.2	21	22.1	23.1	21.8	25.8	23.5	25.9	28.7	31.7
Neonatal Mortality Rate	1.4	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.8	0.6	1.3	1.2	1.4	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.7	1.3	1.1	1.6	1.6	1.1	1.5	1.9	2.4	2.2	2.2	2	2.4	3	3	3.5	4.7	4.6	4.6	5.6	6.5	7	6.2	6.6	8.2	7.6	8.9	9.8	9.7	9.3	8.3	10.2	12.1	14.3	14.4	14	14.6	14.5	15.9	16.7	16.6	17.9	19.6	18.4	19.1	17.7	17.7
Perinatal Mortality Rate	4.4	5.2	3.9	2.9	2.7	2.5	3.2	3.4	3	2.8	2.9	2.8	3.6	3.9	3.5	3.2	3.1	3.1	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.6	3.9	3.5	4.3	4.2	4.9	4.4	4.5	4.3	5.1	5.5	5.7	6.4	7.3	7.9	7.3	9.1	10.2	10.8	10.4	10.6	13	12.6	13.4	14.9	15.2	16.1	14.7	16.6	18.1	20	20.5	21	21.5	21.7	23.2	24.4	24.6	25.5	26.1	26.4	26.7	26.2	27.9
Maternal Mortality Ratio	5.9	3	2.8	2.6	0	2.5	10.2	0	4.8	7.1	2.4	2.5	2.3	7.6	2.6	0	7.5	7.6	10.4	13.3	5.4	5.3	12.3	9.6	17	9.2	13.7	4.2	4.1	4.1	6.1	8	4	4.1	2	4.2	11.3	6.9	13	4.7	12	14.8	11.7	4.7	4.9	7.4	20.3	15.6	14	30	18.5	14.5	36.2	21.2	32.7	38.1	40.2	31.6	49.4	39.5	41.2	35.3	39	40	45.3
Under-5 Mortality Rate	2.8	2.6	2.3	2.2	2.1	2.4	2.6	2.8	2.7	2.6	2.5	2.6	2.7	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.7	2.9	2.9	2.9	3	3.2	3.4	3.5	3.8	4.4	4.5	4.7	4.7	5	5.3	5.8	6.1	6.7	7.5	7.3	7.2	7.7	7.6	8.2	9.9	10.4	11	10.9	11.6	na	na	na	na	18	na	na	na	na	25.3	na	na	na	na	34.6	na	na	na	na	45.9
Under-5 Mortality Rate - Males	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.8	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.7	2.9	3.1	3.2	3.1	3.1	3.2	3.2	3.2	3.3	3.6	3.8	3.8	3.9	4.5	4.8	5.1	5.3	5.4	5.8	6.1	6.6	7.1	7.9	7.6	7.5	8.1	8.2	8.7	10.6	11.5	12.1	12.1	12.1	na	na	na	na	20.4	na	na	na	na	27.6	na	na	na	na	38.2	na	na	na	na	49.5
Under-5 Mortality Rate - Females	3.2	2.8	2.4	2	2	2.1	2.6	2.8	2.5	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.6	2.7	3	3.1	3.6	4.4	4.1	4.3	4	4.6	4.8	5.4	5.6	6.1	7.1	7	7	7.2	7.1	7.6	9.2	9.2	9.8	9.7	11.1	na	na	na	na	15.3	na	na	na	na	22.7	na	na	na	na	30.7	na	na	na	na	41.9

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Per Thousand Residents	-
2024	2024	Numeric	Per Thousand Residents	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Per Thousand Residents	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Per Thousand Residents	-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b59132176a6ea100126e3694f7c51a39"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2023). Death And Death Rates, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b59132176a6ea100126e3694f7c51a39/view

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Created on

31 Oct 2023

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)