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Dentists per 100,000 population: Singapore, 2025-hl
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Singapore had 46.0 dentists per 100,000 people in 2025 (practising basis), derived from 2,814 practising dentists (Singapore Dental Council Annual Report 2025) divided by total population (World Bank WDI). Basis: practising.
Comparability A Confidence medium
Cite this
World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others). (2026). Dentists per 100,000 population: Singapore, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sg/dentists-per-100k/2025-hl/
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Record
- Value
- 46.0 per 100,000
- Exact stored value
- 46 per 100,000
- Unit
- per 100,000
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- medium
- Method
- derived
- Basis
- practising
- Scope
- other
- Headline
- Yes: this record leads in cross-market tables
- Comparability
- Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
- Derived from
- sg.dentists_practising.2025
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
"countryiso3code":"SGP","date":"2025","value":6111175
English: World Bank total population, SGP, 2025: 6,111,175
Locator: World Bank SP.POP.TOTL SGP 2025; numerator sg.dentists_practising.2025
Local definition
Headline rate (DECISIONS L4/L5): dentists_practising (practising) divided by World Bank total population, same year
Source
World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others): World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL). Registry entry: worldbank-sp-pop-totl.
Notes
Derived: 2,814 (sg.dentists_practising.2025, source sg-sdc-ar2025) / 6,111,175 (World Bank SP.POP.TOTL 2025) x 100,000 = 46.0. Numerator basis: practising. Other per-100k records for SG use national-statistics denominators or other bases and are not the headline.
Metric definition
Dentists per 100,000 population; derived = dentists / population x 100000, or reported by source All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-hl | 46.0 per 100,000 | practising | Comparability A | World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) | ||
| 2025 | 47.6 per 100,000 | registered | Comparability A | Singapore Dental Council Annual Report 2025 | ||
| 2024 | 46.6 per 100,000 | registered | Comparability A | Health Manpower (registered dentists, oral health therapists) |
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