Ministry of Health mortality statistics for Singapore, combining Total Number of Deaths with Principal Causes of Death tables for the leading ten causes. Annual CSVs reflect medically certified deaths registered during each year, with ICD-10 coding from 2012 as described officially. Epidemiologists, insurers, and health educators analyse disease-specific mortality trends alongside birth and cancer collections on data.gov.sg. Top-ten listings focus public reporting on the highest-burden conditions.
Official description
Total number of deaths and principal causes of death
Death figures referred to the number of deaths registered during the year.
The Mortality Tabulation List of the International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision has replaced the Ninth Revision as the adopted code set for the derivation of causes of death w.e.f Year 2012.
Refers to the top 10 principal causes of death only.
View annual totals of deaths registered in Singapore from 2006 through 2022. Published by the Ministry of Health with simple year and death-count fields, the series supports mortality surveillance, public health planning, and demographic analysis alongside other vital-statistics datasets.
Ministry of Health table listing Singapore's top ten principal causes of death each year from 2006 through 2022. Every row records the year, the rank from one to ten, the ICD code, the broader classification, the named disease or condition, and that cause's percentage share of all deaths. Coding shifted from the Ninth to the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases mortality tabulation list with effect from 2012, so comparisons spanning that break should be made with care. Public health researchers, clinicians, and journalists use the series to track how cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, and other leading causes have moved in relative importance over time.