The country’s total health expenditures grew from Php 593 billion in 2015 to Php 655 billion in 2016 or by 10.5 percent at current prices.The contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was at 4.5 percent. Total health expenditures comprised of…

The number of registered live births showed a decreasing trend in the last three years. A decrease from 1,790,367 in 2012 to 1,744,767 in 2015 or at about -2.5 percent in the three-year period was observed. However, this does not mean that the…

The employment rate in April 2017 was estimated at 94.3 percent. In April 2016, the employment rate was 93.9 percent.

Value of Production Index (VaPI ) for manufacturing posted a slower annual increment of 3.7 percent in April 2017 compared with the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).

The country’s total external trade in goods in April 2017 reached $11.663 billion, increased by 4.6 percent from $11.149 billion in April 2016.

As measured by the share of tourism direct gross value added (TDGVA) to total gross domestic product (GDP), the contribution of tourism to the economy was estimated at 8.6 percent in 2016 (Figure 1). The TDGVA amounted to PhP 1,243.5 billion in 2016…

Total number of constructions generated from approved building permits in the first quarter of 2017 reached 35,101.

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing moved down at a slower rate of 2.0 percent in April 2017 from the negative growth of 3.6 percent during the same period of previous year.

The headline inflation at the national level decelerated to 3.1 percent in May 2017. It was registered at 3.4 percent in the previous month and 1.6 percent in May 2016. Slower annual increments were posted in the indices of the following commodity…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items went up by 0.2 percent in May from 0.1 percent in April; education, 0.5 percent from 0.2 percent; and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services, 0.2 percent from zero growth.