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Economy

Usual Hours Worked Per Week And Percentage Of Workers Who Worked At Least 40 Hours Per Week, Annual

Data from Jan 2010 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 12 Jul 2025, 19:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: MINISTRY OF MANPOWER

Data Last Updated: 28/01/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: 1. Usual hours worked refers to the number of hours that a person usually works in a typical week, regardless of whether he is paid or not. 2. Data are for June of reference year. 3. Data exclude full-time National Servicemen.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M184091

Data explorer

UsualHoursWorkedPerWeekAndPercentageOfWorkersWhoWorkedAtLeast40HoursPerWeekAnnual.csv (2 rows, 428 B)

Data Series
Text
2024
Text
2023
Numeric
2022
Numeric
2021
Numeric
2020
Numeric
2019
Numeric
2018
Numeric
2017
Numeric
2016
Numeric
2015
Numeric
2014
Numeric
2013
Numeric
2012
Numeric
2011
Numeric
2010
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
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(Null)0.0%
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Mean Usual Hours Worked Per Week41.641.942.242.442.842.94343.243.444.244.345.345.645.946.6
Percentage Of Workers Who Usually Worked At Least 40 Hours Per Weekna83.883.283.582.983.683.684.384.784.885.687.187.487.388.3

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Data SeriesDataSeriesTextHours-
20242024TextHours-
20232023NumericHours-
20222022NumericHours-
20212021NumericHours-
20202020NumericHours-
20192019NumericHours-
20182018NumericHours-
20172017NumericHours-
20162016NumericHours-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_df573e15bee404c564cae8f1d1af2f89"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Usual Hours Worked Per Week And Percentage Of Workers Who Worked At Least 40 Hours Per Week, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_df573e15bee404c564cae8f1d1af2f89/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)