Read on for a summary of Singapore’s healthcare cost statistics, including the proportion of monthly household expenditure spent on medical care.
Get an overview of the proportion of monthly household expenditure that's spent on healthcare in Singapore.
| 2007/08
| 2012/13
| 2017/18
|
|---|
Proportion of monthly Household Expenditure spent on Healthcare1,2 (%)
(by income quintiles) |
|
► All Households | 5.3
| 4.5
| 5.5
|
|
► Lowest 20% | 6.0
| 5.6
| 7.8
|
|
► 2nd quintile | 5.5
| 4.4
| 5.7
|
|
► 3rd quintile | 5.5
| 4.9
| 5.7
|
|
► 4th quintile | 5.3
| 4.6
| 5.0
|
|
► Highest quintile | 4.8
| 4.0
| 4.8
|
Notes:
1 Based on Resident Households
2 Income quintiles are based on ranking of households by their monthly household income from all sources (excluding imputed rental of owner-occupied accomodation) per household member.