The total number of all manufacturing establishments in the formal sector of the economy reached 24,496 according to the final results of the 2015 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI)

The country’s total external trade in goods in April 2018 reached $13.84 billion, reflecting an increase of 8.8 percent from $12.73 billion recorded during the same month in 2017.

The total rice stocks inventory level as of 01 May 2018 was at 2,909.46 thousand metric tons (Figure 1). This was 9.48 percent below the previous year's volume of stock at 3,214.18 thousand metric tons and 33.30 percent above last month's inventory…

In 2017, the tourism industries contributed 12.2 percent to the economy (Figure 1). It is measured by the share of Tourism Direct Gross Value Added (TDGVA) to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The TDGVA amounted to PhP 1,929.3 billion at current…

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the first quarter of 2018 by the seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic Bay…

Based on the 2017 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS), about nine percent of the estimated 39.2 million Filipinos aged 6 to 24 years old were out-of-school children and youth (OSCY).

Total number of constructions in the first quarter of 2018 reached 36,002, according to the preliminary results of construction statistics from approved building permits

The country’s annual headline inflation further accelerated to 4.6 percent in May 2018.

On 15 May 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) approved the conduct of the survey on Action Ready Climate Knowledge to Improve Disaster Risk Management for Small Holder Farmers in the Philippines of the Philippine Institute for…

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing gained as it posted a two-digit increment of 31.7 percent in April 2018, from a negative growth rate of 1.6 percent in the same month of the previous year, based on the preliminary results of…