Some common indicators used to indicate health include total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, crude birth and death rate. As of 2017, Singapore has a Total Fertility Rate of 1.16 children born per woman, an Infant Mortality rate of 2.2 deaths per 1000 live births, Crude Birth Rate of 8.9 births per 1000 people and a Death Rate of 3 deaths per 1000 inhabitants. The average lifetime expectancy at birth slightly increased from 83 to 83.1 between the period 2016 and 2017. In comparison, the average lifetime expectancy for China grew from 76.3 in 2016 to 76.4 in 2017. Other parameters are outlined below:
