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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 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:35 SGT

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%
2017-12	foreign_domestic_worker	246,800
2017-12	construction_marine_process	360,700
2018-12	foreign_domestic_worker	253,800
2018-12	construction_marine_process	355,700
2019-12	foreign_domestic_worker	261,800
2019-12	construction_marine_process	370,100
2020-12	foreign_domestic_worker	247,400
2020-12	construction_marine_process	311,100
2021-12	foreign_domestic_worker	246300
2021-12	construction_marine_process	318500

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Work pass type	work_pass_type	Text	-	-
Count	count	Text	-	-

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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 July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4fb775d3cc311989261fae4ad22dde09/view

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Created on

16 Jul 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)