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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 2024

Last updated: 15 Jul 2025, 17:50 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Annual figures are the simple averages of unemployment figures obtained at more frequent intervals in the year.

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 (33 rows, 623 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Residential Status
Text
Unemployment Rate
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
overall100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992overall1.8
1993overall1.7
1994overall1.7
1995overall1.7
1996overall1.7
1997overall1.4
1998overall2.6
1999overall2.8
2000overall2.6
2001overall2.7

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
Unemployment Rateunemployment_rateNumeric--
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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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e3598914c86699a9a36e68190f78c59a/view

About this dataset

Contact

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)