Death in Singapore

Graves at the Kranji War Cemetery – photographed on 13 November 2005

Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population.[1] There are strict regulations surrounding death and treatment of the body after death.

  1. ^ Key annual indicators, Singapore Department of Statistics, 26 September 2008, archived from the original on 21 February 2009.