The Philippine population is projected to reach 142 million by 2045.  This signifies about 49 million persons added to the country’s population from 2010 to 2045, equivalent to an average annual growth rate of 1.21 percent.  All regions are expected…

The total imported goods by the country for the month of October 2015 amounted to $6.527 billion, an increase of 16.8 percent from $5.589 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.

The annual growth in the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up 0.5 percent in October 2015. It posted a 0.4 percent gain last month and in October 2014, 2.8 percent. The heavily-weighted food index recorded a…

The annual Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to drop as it recorded a negative rate of 0.2 percent in November.

The 2012 Census of Agriculture (CA) reported 5.56 million farms/holdings1 covering 7.19 million hectares, which translated to an average area of 1.29 hectares per farm/holding. The number of farms/holdings increased from 1980 to 2012 by 62.6 percent…

Solid Responsive World-Class Authority on Quality Statistics and Civil Registration. This is the vision of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) which was launched during its National Planning Workshop on 10-11 December 2015 at the Heritage…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing went down as it posted a decrement of 9.2 percent in October 2015 compared with a year ago growth of 8.0 percent, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…

Bert Joseph F. Prestoza from Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) emerged as victor of the 24th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) National Finals which was held at GT Toyota Asian Center Auditorium at the University of the Philippines-Diliman on…

The    Philippines’    export   sales  totaled $4.590 billion in October 2015, a 10.8 percent decrease from $5.148 billion recorded value in October of 2014.  The negative growth was mainly brought about by the decreases in seven major…

The employment rate in October 2015 was estimated at 94.4 percent. Three regions, namely, Ilocos Region (91.5%), CALABARZON (92.2%), and National Capital Region (NCR) (92.8%) had employment rates lower than the national figure (Table 4). The labor…