Singapore's trade union membership rose to 829,395 in 2024, adding 142,719 members since 2014 and reaching the highest level in the 11-year official s

Contains information from "Total Employees' Trade Union Membership" accessed on 28 June 2026 from Ministry of Manpower (data.gov.

sg (Singapore Department of Statistics)) which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://beta.data.gov.sg/open-data-licence).

from Singapore Singapore's trade union movement added more than 142,000 employee members between 2014 and 2024, lifting the total from 686,676 at the start of the period to 829,395 last year, Ministry of Manpower data shows.

The upward trend was interrupted only briefly in 2020, when the pandemic pushed membership slightly below the 2019 peak of 785,643 , and the 2024 figure stands as the highest in the 11-year official series.

A decade of almost uninterrupted growth From 2014 to 2019, membership climbed each year, moving from 686,676 to 785,643 by the end of the decade.

The pandemic year 2020 brought the first decline, with the figure slipping to 781,547—still higher than the 2018 total of 762,807.

By 2021, the count had edged back to 785,456, essentially reclaiming the pre-pandemic level. The post-pandemic recovery was remarkably swift.

In 2022, union membership crossed 799,000 for the first time, and by 2023 it had risen to 813,181.

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