Editing Demographics of Singapore (section)

==Employment==
In 2005, the unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and over was 2.5%, the lowest in the last four years, with a labour force of 2.3 million people.<ref>"[http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/mqstats/indicators.html Latest Data (1 February 2006)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050711015920/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/mqstats/indicators.html |date=11 July 2005}} – ''Singapore Department of Statistics''. URL accessed on 2 February 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Singapore's employment hits all-time high of 2.3 m in 2005 | publisher = Channel NewsAsia | date = 1 February 2006 | url = http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/191175/1/.html | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060218031934/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/191175/1/.html | archive-date = 18 February 2006}} By May Wong.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/annual/yos/yos110.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 July 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051031041632/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/annual/yos/yos110.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2005}} ''Department of Statistics, Singapore''.</ref>

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|+Employment (thousands)<ref name="MOM 2012">[http://www.mom.gov.sg/Publications/mrsd_qtlmr124.pdf Labour Market 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319135857/http://www.mom.gov.sg/Publications/mrsd_qtlmr124.pdf |date=19 March 2013}} ''Ministry of Manpower, Singapore''.</ref>
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! rowspan="2" | Year || colspan="11" | Employment ''change'' || rowspan="2" | Employment in December 2012
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! 2002 || 2003 || 2004 || 2005 || 2006 || 2007 || 2008 || 2009 || 2010 || 2011 || 2012
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| Total || −22.9 || −12.9 || 71.4 || 113.3 || 176.0 || 234.9 || 221.6 || 37.6 || 115.9 || 122.6 || 129.1 || 3,357.6
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| Total (excluding foreign domestic workers) || −23.6 || −11.7 || 66.4 || 105.5 || 168.0 || 223.5 || 213.4 || 32.9 || 110.6 || 117.7 || 125.8 || 3,148.0
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| Locals || 19.4 || 14.9 || 49.9 || 63.5 || 90.9 || 90.4 || 64.7 || 41.8 || 56.2 || 37.9 || 58.7 || 2,089.3
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| Foreigners || −42.3 || −27.9 || 21.5 || 49.8 || 85.1 || 144.5 || 156.9 || −4.2 || 59.7 || 84.8 || 70.4 || 1,268.3
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| Foreigners (excluding foreign domestic workers) || −43.0 || −26.6 || 16.5 || 42.0 || 77.1 || 133.1 || 148.7 || −8.9 || 54.4 || 79.8 || 67.1 || 1,058.7
|}

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|+Unemployment rate (%) for persons aged 15 years and over<ref name="Singstat 2015 Key Indicators">[http://www.singstat.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/publications/publications_and_papers/reference/yearbook_2015/excel/topic1.xls topic1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912044859/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/publications/publications_and_papers/reference/yearbook_2015/excel/topic1.xls|date=12 September 2015}} (Key Indicators). See Table 1.14 on ''Education and Literacy'' and Table 1.11 on ''Employment''. Retrieved from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150108100846/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/publications-and-papers/reference/yoscontents Statistics Singapore – Yearbook of Statistics Singapore, 2015], ''Department of Statistics, Singapore''. Retrieved on 28 August 2015.</ref><ref name="MOM 2012" />
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! Year
! Overall
! Residents
! Singapore citizens
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| 2002
| {{percentage bar|3.6}}
| {{percentage bar|4.8}}
| {{percentage bar|5.1}}
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| 2003
| {{percentage bar|4.0}}
| {{percentage bar|5.2}}
| {{percentage bar|5.4}}
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| 2004
| {{percentage bar|3.4}}
| {{percentage bar|4.4}}
| {{percentage bar|4.8}}
|-
| 2005
| {{percentage bar|3.1}}
| {{percentage bar|4.1}}
| {{percentage bar|4.4}}
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| 2006
| {{percentage bar|2.7}}
| {{percentage bar|3.6}}
| {{percentage bar|3.7}}
|-
| 2007
| {{percentage bar|2.1}}
| {{percentage bar|3.0}}
| {{percentage bar|3.1}}
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| 2008
| {{percentage bar|2.2}}
| {{percentage bar|3.2}}
| {{percentage bar|3.4}}
|-
| 2009
| {{percentage bar|3.0}}
| {{percentage bar|4.3}}
| {{percentage bar|4.5}}
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| 2010
| {{percentage bar|2.2}}
| {{percentage bar|3.1}}
| {{percentage bar|3.4}}
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| 2011
| {{percentage bar|2.0}}
| {{percentage bar|2.9}}
| {{percentage bar|3.0}}
|-
| 2012
| {{percentage bar|2.0}}
| {{percentage bar|2.8}}
| {{percentage bar|3.0}}
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| 2013
| {{percentage bar|2.0}}
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| 2014
| {{percentage bar|2.0}}
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