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Singapore: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
1.98%percent
Change on 2024
+0.0 pointsfrom 1.95%
Average, 2016–2025
2.22%10 years
Record high and low
6.28% (1982)low 1.43% (1997)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.10Forecast
20302.10Forecast
20292.10Forecast
20282.10Forecast
20271.98Forecast
20261.98Forecast
20251.98
20241.95
20231.93
20222.10
20212.65
20203.00
20192.25
20182.10
20172.18
20162.08

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1984–2017
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1991–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Singapore documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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