Singapore is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of more than $57,000. Life expectancy at birth is 82.3 and infant mortality is 2.7 per 1000 live births. The population is ageing and by 2030, 20% will be over 65. However it is estimated that about 85% of those over 65 are healthy and reasonably active. Singapore has a universal health care system.
There are a variety of health screening and healthy lifestyle[1] programmes for both adults and children. Only 14% of the population smokes.[2] The Temasek Cares programme supports a wide range of interventions for disadvantaged people.
Singapore in recent years has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world and among the highest life expectancies from birth, according to the World Health Organization.[3]
A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the Lancet in September 2018. Singapore had the thirteenth-highest level of expected human capital with 24 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years.[4]
- ^ Autism Therapy Treatment Centre Singapore | Autismstep , "Autismstep: Mortality", based on 2018 data.
- ^ Britnell, Mark (2015). In Search of the Perfect Health System. London: Palgrave. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-137-49661-4.
- ^ World Health Organization, "World Health Statistics 2007: Mortality", based on 2005 data.
- ^ Lim, Stephen; et, al. "Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016". Lancet. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
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