Domestic trade in the Philippines continued to grow across water and air transport systems in 2025, with an even higher volume and value now recorded through road transport, which the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) tracked for the first time last year. The PSA reported on Monday, March 30,...
Factory-gate prices in the Philippines rose at their fastest pace in nearly three years in February, reflecting growing cost pressures in the manufacturing sector. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday, March 27, that the producer price index (PPI) for manufacturing...
The Philippines’ goods trade with the rest of the world grew faster in February, ahead of the conflict in the Middle East posing a threat to the country’s exports. The latest preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data on Friday, March 27, showed that total external trade rose 10.7...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday, March 16, launched the fully digital apostille for Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) certificates for easy authentication of such documents even abroad. During the launching ceremony, DFA Secretary Ma....
Many Filipinos experienced temporary unemployment and reduced working hours after the holiday season as seasonal jobs ended, but formal wage and salary employment continued to grow, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. In a statement, the department said the rise in unemployment...
Senator Risa Hontiveros, on Monday, March 9, questioned the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) over what she described as a “mysterious delay” in endorsing to the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) the cancellation of businessman Joseph Sy’s birth certificate despite earlier findings of...
President Marcos has appealed for understanding over the need to physically appear in correcting clerical errors on birth certificates, stressing that the government is only avoiding fraudulent birth registration. Marcos explained that there are processes in government—such as birth registration...
The labor market showed signs of resilience in late 2025 as the unemployment rate retreated from a three-month peak, though a series of powerful typhoons tempered the recovery in key service sectors. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday, Jan. 7, that the jobless rate fell...
The country’s full-year inflation rate in 2025 settled at a nine-year low, even as inflation edged up to 1.8 percent in December from 1.5 percent a month earlier, driven mainly by higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. National...
ILOILO CITY – The Philippine Statistics Authority has issued a national ID to a 110-year-old woman from Iloilo province and she may be the oldest in the country to have received the card. Jovita Aranga from San Rafael town in northern Iloilo successfully registered for a national ID during the...
The country’s inflation rate slowed to 1.5 percent in November, easing from 1.7 percent in October and 2.5 percent in the same month last year, largely due to lower food prices, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday, Dec. 5. Headline inflation averaged 1.6 percent during...
Filipinos are consuming rice faster than the country can grow it, with a study from Ateneo de Manila University warning that stagnant farm yields and shrinking farmland are widening the nation’s rice deficit despite years of government interventions. The Philippines consumed 2.3 million metric...
