The country’s export revenues totaled $5.281 billion in June 2015, a 3.3 percent decline from $5.462 billion recorded value in June of 2014.  The negative growth was mainly brought about by the decrease of six major commodities out of the top ten…

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households in the Philippines decelerated to 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2015.

The country’s household final consumption expenditures (HFCE), which comprised 69.1 percent of total expenditures, amounted to Php 4,947.0 billion in 2014, 5.4 percent higher than the previous year’s level of Php 4,692.4 billion.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing declined by 3.8 percent in June 2015 compared with negative 2.3 percent during the same month of last year.

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items had a zero growth for three consecutive months as offsetting trends were noted among the commodity groups.

The country’s headline inflation continued its downward trend as it settled to a growth of 0.8 percent in July 2015. Last month, it moved by 1.2 percent and in July 2014, 4.9 percent. Negative annual rates were seen in the indices of housing, water…

The General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further slowed down to 0.9 percent in June 2015. It increased by 1.5 percent last month and in June 2014, 2.9 percent. The indices of mineral fuels, lubricants and related…

The economy of Davao Region recorded the fastest growth among the 17 regions of the country in 2014 – growing at 9.4 percent in 2014, surpassing its growth of 6.7 percent in 2013. It was followed by Central Luzon and Central Visayas which grew by 9.…

The population 15 years old and over in January 2015 was estimated at 64.6 million wherein around 41.2 million persons were reported in the labor force, that is, either employed or unemployed (Table 1 and Table 2). These figures placed the labor…

The total imported goods by the country for the month of May 2015 amounted to $4.391 billion, a decrease of 13.4 percent from $5.069 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.