Singapore Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
2.8%
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1991 to 2025
Source: World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · modeled ILO estimate, % of total labour force, annual.
Singapore Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Singapore, the unemployment rate rose by 0.1pp in 2025, from 2.7% in 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.7% in 2024 to 4.6% in 2021.
Its average since 1991 is 3.9%, and the latest reading is below that.
Singapore is 56th of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Singapore's rate is genuinely very low by international standards, that's real, not a data error.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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