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Unemployment Topline Indicators, Annual And Quarterly

Number of Unemployed Residents, Annual

Economy

Number of Unemployed Residents, Annual

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:25 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  2. Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Number of Unemployed Residents, Annual

Data explorer

NumberofUnemployedResidentsAnnual.csv (32 rows, 675 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Residential Status
Text
Unemployed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
resident100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992resident30400
1993resident29400
1994resident31200
1995resident32500
1996resident33000
1997resident30400
1998resident54400
1999resident60800
2000resident59400
2001resident62000

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
UnemployedunemployedNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a43502755799cd79acaa63c3f5d4d972"
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. (2016). Number of Unemployed Residents, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a43502755799cd79acaa63c3f5d4d972/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

12 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)