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Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over By Age, Duration of Unemployment And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

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

Data from 2010 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

Data explorer

UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsOverByAgeDurationofUnemploymentAndSex.csv (1.4K rows, 45.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Duration Of Unemployment Text	Unemployed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% 15-2420.0% 25-2920.0% 30-3920.0% 40-4920.0%	(Null)0.0% 5 to 911.1% under 511.1% 10 to 1411.1% 15 to 1911.1%	(Null)0.0% 10010.5% 20010.9% 3009.0% 4007.5%
2010	male	15-24	under 5	4700
2010	male	15-24	5 to 9	1700
2010	male	15-24	10 to 14	700
2010	male	15-24	15 to 19	200
2010	male	15-24	20 to 24	500
2010	male	15-24	25 to 29	100
2010	male	15-24	30 to 39	0
2010	male	15-24	40 to 51	200
2010	male	15-24	52 and over	100
2010	male	25-29	under 5	3100

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Duration Of Unemployment	duration_of_unemployment	Text	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7d2bcebab8531bc21d22f0fe360ff33a"
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). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over By Age, Duration of Unemployment And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7d2bcebab8531bc21d22f0fe360ff33a/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg brian_pang@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)