MOH health manpower open data in this collection reports ratios of healthcare professionals to population from 2006 through 2022, with scope notes for doctors, nurses, and dentists in the official description. The CSV Healthcare Professional to Population Ratio supports workforce planning debates on doctor and nurse density relative to resident population growth. Researchers must apply MOH’s definitions—including temporary doctor registration from 2010 and two-tier dentist registers—when comparing years. Ratios are published annual indicators, not individual practitioner listings.
Official description
Notes:
* Doctors: Includes doctors registered under Temporary Registration for service provision from Year 2010 onwards.
* Nurses: Refers to Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses and Registered Midwives.
* Dentists: Refers to Division I and II dentists.
The Dentists Register has two divisions. Graduate dentists are listed in the First Division. Dentists without formal qualifications (grand-parented as dentists in the 1950s) and former dental therapists are listed in the Second Division.
This dataset reports healthcare-professional availability in Singapore from 2006 to 2022. For each year and profession, it provides the number of professionals per thousand population and a corresponding profession-to-population ratio. It can support workforce-capacity analysis and comparisons across healthcare occupations over time, but the catalog does not define which professional groups are included, whether headcount or registration status is used, or the population denominator, so Ministry of Health methodology should be checked for precise interpretation.