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CSV Ministry of Health

Healthcare Professional to Population Ratio

Description

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.

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Coverage
2006-01-01 – 2022-12-31
Rows
85
Columns
4

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Data

Year Profession No. Per Thousand Ratio to Population
2006 Doctors 1.600000 0.482638889
2006 Nurses 4.800000 0.1875
2006 Dentists 0.300000 1:3,199
2006 Pharmacists 0.300000 1:3,097
2006 Optometrists and Opticians -
2007 Doctors 1.600000 0.472916667
2007 Nurses 4.900000 0.184027778
2007 Dentists 0.300000 1:3,247
2007 Pharmacists 0.300000 1:3,094
2007 Optometrists and Opticians -
2008 Doctors 1.600000 0.470138889
2008 Nurses 5.000000 0.180555556
2008 Dentists 0.300000 1:3,261
2008 Pharmacists 0.300000 1:3,130
2008 Optometrists and Opticians 0.400000 1:2,235
2009 Doctors 1.700000 0.457638889
2009 Nurses 5.400000 0.170833333
2009 Dentists 0.300000 1:3,258
2009 Pharmacists 0.300000 1:3,008
2009 Optometrists and Opticians 0.500000 1:2,211
2010 Doctors 1.800000 0.431944444
2010 Nurses 5.800000 0.161805556
2010 Dentists 0.300000 1:3,215
2010 Pharmacists 0.400000 1:2,799
2010 Optometrists and Opticians 0.500000 1:2,160

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Year Year (YYYY) No
Profession Text No
No. Per Thousand Numeric No
Ratio to Population Text No