The country’s rice inventory rose by nearly five percent to 2.35 million metric tons (MT) in June, with commercial stocks expanding on the back of higher rice shipments in recent months, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). In a report, the PSA said the country’s total rice...
The value of the country’s metallic mineral reserves expanded by 17 percent to nearly ₱590 billion in 2025 on the back of an upswing in Class A gold reserves, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). In a report on Thursday, June 25, the PSA said the monetary value of Class A...
The country’s production of palay, or unmilled rice, likely improved by 5.3 percent in the second quarter as the total harvest area expanded to more than one million hectares, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Based on estimates by the PSA as of May 1, palay output from...
Local unemployment rate stood at 4.7 percent in April, the highest jobless rate for April rounds of the government’s labor force surveys (LFS) since the 5.7 percent recorded in April 2022, with agriculture and wholesale and retail trade shedding the most jobs. National Statistician Claire Dennis...
High fuel costs driven by geopolitical conflict in the Middle East hammered the Philippine labor market in March, forcing hundreds of thousands of agricultural and manual workers out of job as operating expenses became untenable. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Undersecretary and National...
For learners who often go unnoticed in broad national data, help may soon be closer to home as the Department of Education (DepEd) pushes for education mapping at the barangay level, in a move aimed at identifying learning gaps more precisely and directing support to communities that need it most. ...
With March inflation exceeding the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ’ (BSP) forecast, largely due to spillover from global oil price and supply shocks, the central bank warned that a prolonged crisis could seep into the broader consumer basket. This could dampen expectations of a near-term return to...
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...
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 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...
Philippine economic expansion slowed sharply to four percent in the third quarter of 2025, as floods, corruption scandals, and weather disruptions heavily weighed on growth. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Friday, Nov. 7, showed that the third-quarter gross domestic product...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country’s ocean-based industries have reached a new milestone, with their economic value surpassing ₱1 trillion last year. According to the PSA, ocean economy grew 4.7 percent in January to December 2025 to ₱1.01 trillion from...
