Tag: unemployment rate in Philippines

PHL unemployment rate at 4% in April: PSA

(Eagle News)–Unemployment rate in the Philippines slightly rose to 4% in April, according to Philippine Statistics Authority data. The unemployment rate the month before  was pegged at 3.9%. According to the PSA, the April rate translates to 2.04 million unemployed individuals. The employment rate was pegged at 96% or 48.36 million employed persons. By broad industry group, the services sector remained the top sector in terms of the number of employed persons, with a share […]

PHL unemployment rate at 3.9 percent in March: PSA

(Eagle News)–The country’s unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in March, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on Wednesday, May 8. Based on PSA data, this is a 0.4 increase from the  3.5 percent unemployment rate registered the month before March, and translates to two million unemployed people aged 15 and above. The employment rate in March was recorded at 96.1 percent, lower than the 96.5 percent recorded in February. The underemployment rate, meanwhile, was  at […]

Philippines registers 3.1 percent unemployment rate in December 2023

NEDA says rate is lowest recorded in nearly two decades (Eagle News)–The Philippines registered an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent in December 2023. According to the National Economic Development Authority, this represents a year-on-year decrease of 617,000 unemployed individuals, with its “significant” decrease from the 4.3 percent unemployment rate recorded in December 2022. NEDA said this is also the lowest unemployment rate recorded in nearly two decades. Citing Philippine Statistics Authority data, the underemployment rate, […]

PHL employment rate in June still at 94%: PSA

(Eagle News) — The employment rate in the country stayed at 94% in June, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. According to the PSA, the registered employment rate was higher than the 92.3 percent employment rate registered in the same period of 2021. The PSA said  in terms of magnitude, 46.59 million Filipinos who are 15 years old and above were employed in June 2022, higher by 508,000 from the 46.08 million employed in May 2022. […]