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Deaths By Cause And Type of Certification

Data from Jan 2022 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 08 Sep 2025, 09:03 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Deaths by Cause and Type of Certification

Deaths by Type of Certification

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DeathsByCauseAndTypeofCertification.csv (213 rows, 24.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Icd main category Text	Icd detail category Text	Certified By Text	Death count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202234.7% 202332.4% 202432.9%	(Null)0.0% 1-026-Neplasms(C00-D48)29.6% 1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)14.1% 1-064-Diseases of the circulatory system(I00-I99)9.9% 1-095-External causes of morbidity and mortality(V01-Y89)9.9%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Doctors88.7% Coroners11.3%	(Null)0.0%
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)	Doctors	21
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-004-Other intestinal infectious diseases(A01-A08)	Doctors	18
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-005-Respiratory tuberculosis(A15-A16)	Doctors	15
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-006-Other tuberculosis(A17-A19)	Doctors	7
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-011-Meningococcal infection(A39)	Doctors	1
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-012-Septicaemia(A40-A41)	Doctors	108
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-013-Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission(A50-A64)	Doctors	2
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-017-Other arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers(A90-A94,A96-A99)	Doctors	21
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-019-Viral hepatitis(B15-B19)	Doctors	4
2022	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-020-Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease(B20-B24)	Doctors	7

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Icd main category	icd_main_category	Text	-	-
Icd detail category	icd_detail_category	Text	-	-
Certified By	certified_by	Text	-	by doctors or coroners
Death count	death_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f9e1ec367036b43d97eec96cbcee7827"
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.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2015). Deaths By Cause And Type of Certification (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f9e1ec367036b43d97eec96cbcee7827/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

29 Oct 2015

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)