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Unemployment Topline Indicators, Annual And Quarterly

Overall Unemployment Rate, Annual

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Overall Unemployment Rate, Annual

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:28 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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.

Overall Unemployment Rate, Annual

Data explorer

OverallUnemploymentRateAnnual.csv (32 rows, 574 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Residential Status Text	Unemployment Rate Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% overall100.0%	(Null)0.0%
1992	overall	1.8
1993	overall	1.7
1994	overall	1.7
1995	overall	1.8
1996	overall	1.7
1997	overall	1.4
1998	overall	2.5
1999	overall	2.8
2000	overall	2.7
2001	overall	2.7

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Residential Status	residential_status	Text	-	-
Unemployment Rate	unemployment_rate	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e3598914c86699a9a36e68190f78c59a"
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). Overall Unemployment Rate, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e3598914c86699a9a36e68190f78c59a/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg ng_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)