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Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Labour Force Status And Age

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 23 Mar 2026, 17:07 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
  4. 2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Data explorer

ResidentsAged15YearsandOverbyLabourForceStatusAndAge.csv (384 rows, 14 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Age
Text
Labour Force
Numeric
Employed
Numeric
Unemployed
Numeric
Outside The Labour Force
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
19913.1%
19923.1%
19933.1%
19943.1%
(Null)0.0%
15-198.3%
20-248.3%
25-298.3%
30-348.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
199115-1967000638003200167800
199120-24191500185500600044900
199125-29234500229200530040600
199130-34229300225800360059200
199135-39201700198400320058200
199140-44171800169000280054700
199145-499700095800120040700
199150-548610084500160050200
199155-59494004880060057800
199160-64267002640030062800
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_12fc09011acb07b04aa484cbd5ea5ceb"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Labour Force Status And Age (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 20, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_12fc09011acb07b04aa484cbd5ea5ceb/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)