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Health

Life Expectancy at Birth

Data from Jan 1990 to Jan 2021Updated 4 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Life expectancy at birth

Data refers to Total population (Singapore)

Source: Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 Study

Data explorer

LifeExpectancyatBirth.csv (64 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
LE Total Population GBD
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Males50.0%
Females50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1990Males73.02
1990Females78.16
1991Males73.35
1991Females78.92
1992Males73.63
1992Females79.23
1993Males74.02
1993Females79.43
1994Males74.19
1994Females79.74

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SexsexText--
LE Total Population GBDLE_total_population_GBDText--
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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_e8e0db9cbd76e12eaa2bf071cc9ce964"
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. (2025). Life Expectancy at Birth (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e8e0db9cbd76e12eaa2bf071cc9ce964/view

About this dataset

Contact

Erica_ONG@moh.gov.sgTAN_Le_Yi@moh.gov.sg

Created on

02 Jan 2025

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)