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Health

Health Adjusted Life Expectancy at Birth

Data from Jan 1990 to Jan 2021

Last updated: 04 Feb 2025, 11:55 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Health adjusted life expectancy at birth

Data refers to Total population (Singapore)

Source: Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 Study

Data explorer

HealthAdjustedLifeExpectancyatBirth.csv (64 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	HALE Total Population GBD Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Males50.0% Females50.0%	(Null)0.0%
1990	Males	65.26
1990	Females	68.44
1991	Males	65.57
1991	Females	69.06
1992	Males	65.83
1992	Females	69.34
1993	Males	66.17
1993	Females	69.52
1994	Males	66.33
1994	Females	69.78

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
HALE Total Population GBD	HALE_total_population_GBD	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c93fe829a88716926223b5ad472e6044"
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). Health Adjusted Life Expectancy at Birth (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c93fe829a88716926223b5ad472e6044/view

About this dataset

Contact

Erica_ONG@moh.gov.sg

Created on

11 Apr 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)