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Foreign Workforce Numbers, Annual

Number of Foreign Domestic Workers and Construction, Marine, Process Work Permit Holders

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Number of Foreign Domestic Workers and Construction, Marine, Process Work Permit Holders

Data from Dec 2017 to Dec 2022Updated 12 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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NumberofForeignDomesticWorkersandConstructionMarineProcessWorkPermitHolders.csv (12 rows, 543 B)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Work pass type
Text
Count
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2017-12foreign_domestic_worker246,800
2017-12construction_marine_process360,700
2018-12foreign_domestic_worker253,800
2018-12construction_marine_process355,700
2019-12foreign_domestic_worker261,800
2019-12construction_marine_process370,100
2020-12foreign_domestic_worker247,400
2020-12construction_marine_process311,100
2021-12foreign_domestic_worker246300
2021-12construction_marine_process318500

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
MonthmonthMonth (YYYY-MM)--
Work pass typework_pass_typeText--
CountcountText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4fb775d3cc311989261fae4ad22dde09"
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. (2019). Number of Foreign Domestic Workers and Construction, Marine, Process Work Permit Holders (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4fb775d3cc311989261fae4ad22dde09/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

16 Jul 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)