The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recognizes the growing concern of the public regarding the privacy and security of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys). We assure the public and all stakeholders that PSA gives utmost importance…
The extraction of Philippine energy resources increased from 2000 to 2017. Coal extraction increased by almost ninefold from 1.4 million metric tons (MT) to 13.3 million MT in 2017. Meanwhile, oil extraction increased from 0.4 million barrels of oil…
The stock of surface and soil water in the country showed a decline of about 20.4 percent for the year 2015. At the beginning of the 2015, the stock of water amounted to a total of 94.6 billion cubic meters (BCM), decreasing to 75.3 BCM at the end…
The total tree-covered area of the Philippines increased from 6.5 million hectares in the beginning of 2010 to 7.8 million hectares in 2015. The trend for tree-covered area increased steadily with an average annual growth rate of 3.6 percent.
The country’s total external trade in goods in February 2019 amounted to $13.14 billion, reflecting an increment of 1.2 percent from the $12.99 billion recorded value during the same month of the previous year. Of the total external trade, $5.18…
In the first semester of 2018, a family of five needed no less than PhP 7,337, on average, to meet the family’s basic food needs for a month. This amount is the food threshold. On the other hand, no less than PhP 10,481, on average, was needed to…
The total rice inventory as of 01 March 2019 was 2,221.42 thousand metric tons. This was 30.87 percent higher than the 1,697.37 thousand metric tons level in March 2018. Similarly, the stock inventory for this month was 3.75 percent above the…
