Dental Market Radar

Fact · Workforce

Dentists per 100,000 population: Singapore, 2024

Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of

Singapore had 46.6 dentists per 100,000 people in 2024 (registered basis), according to MOH Health Manpower. Basis: registered.

Comparability A Confidence high

Cite this

Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore. (2026). Dentists per 100,000 population: Singapore, as of 2024-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sg/dentists-per-100k/2024/

Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sg/dentists-per-100k/2024/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Record

Value
46.6 per 100,000
Exact stored value
46.58 per 100,000
Unit
per 100,000
As of
Accessed
Revision
1
Confidence
high
Method
derived
Basis
registered
Scope
registered
Comparability
Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
Status
Current revision

Source quote

Dentist to Population Ratio | 1:2,164 | 1:2,200 | 1:2147 (columns 2022 | 2023 | 2024); Dentist per 1,000 Population | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5

Locator: MOH Health Manpower page, dentists table, rows 'Dentist to Population Ratio' and 'Dentist per 1,000 Population', column 2024

Local definition

Registered dentists (Division I and II) per total population

Source

Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore: Health Manpower (registered dentists, oral health therapists). Registry entry: sg-moh-manpower.

Notes

Derived: 2,812 registered dentists / 6,036,860 mid-2024 population (SingStat M810001) x 100,000 = 46.58; consistent with MOH ratio 1:2147 (= 46.58). Quote as rendered by the fetch tool from the MOH HTML table (moh.gov.sg returns 403 to curl); cell layout not byte-verified.

Metric definition

Dentists per 100,000 population; derived = dentists / population x 100000, or reported by source All markets for this metric.

History

Dentists per 100,000 population in Singapore: current records by yearDentists per 100,000 population in Singapore: current records by year. per 100,000; same basis only (registered); a dashed line crosses a series break. Sources: MOH Health Manpower; Singapore Dental Council Annual Report 2025. Dental Market Radar.Dentists per 100,000 population in Singapore: current records by yearper 100,000; same basis only (registered); a dashed line crosses a series break2024: 46.646.62025: 47.647.620242025Sources: MOH Health Manpower; Singapore Dental Council Annual Report 2025. Dental Market Radar.
Current records on the same basis (registered). A dashed line crosses a documented series break. The table below lists every record.
Current records for Dentists per 100,000 population, Singapore, newest first
YearValueBasisAs ofComparabilitySourceSeries break
2025-hl46.0 per 100,000practisingComparability AWorld Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
202547.6 per 100,000registeredComparability ASingapore Dental Council Annual Report 2025
202446.6 per 100,000registeredComparability AHealth Manpower (registered dentists, oral health therapists)

Please also cite the original source above.

Same metric in other markets

Taiwan Japan South Korea Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Australia New Zealand Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Qatar