The annual increase of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level slowed down to 3.4 percent in December 2017. In the previous month, its annual rate was pegged at 4.4 percent and in December 2016, 5.5 percent. The slowdown was due…

Reported deaths in 2016 reached 582,183. The figure shows an increase of 21,578 or 3.8 percent higher than the previous year’s 560,605 deaths, which is equivalent to a crude death rate (CDR) of 5.6, or about six (6) persons per thousand population…

On 29 January 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) granted clearance to the conduct of the 2018 Updating of the List of Establishments (ULE) - a preparatory activity to update the frame for the conduct of 2019 Census of Philippine…

The year-on-year change of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked up by 2.0 percent in January 2018.

The country’s total external trade in goods in December 2017 reached $13.46 billion, posting a positive growth of 8.6 percent from $12.40 billion registered during the same month in 2016.

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing recorded a two-digit annual drop of 10.3 percent in December 2017 from 16.6 percent growth in the same month of the previous year, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…

The total rice stocks inventory as of 01 January 2018 was 2,289.65 thousand metric tons (Figure 1). This was lower by 17.20 percent from the 2,765.12 thousand metric tons inventory level in January 2017. Similarly, it declined by 19.64 percent from…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for total manufacturing moved downward at a slower rate of 1.8 percent in December 2017 from a negative 4.2 percent during the same period of previous year.

The year 2018 started off with a higher national headline inflation rate of 4.0 percent. Inflation in December 2017 was posted at 3.3 percent and in January 2017, 2.7 percent. The uptrend was primarily due to the higher annual increment in the…

The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services at the country level both moved up at a faster rate of 0.7 percent in January 2018 from 0.3 percent in the previous month.