Philippines Employment Rate
The share of working-age people who are in work.
60.6%
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Jan 2021 to Aug 2026
Source: Computed from PSA's labour force survey, OpenSTAT 0021B3FKEI2 · participation rate times PSA's employment rate, both sexes, not seasonally adjusted, monthly, from January 2021.
Philippines Employment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Philippines, the employment rate fell by 1.9pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 62.5% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 56.7% in Jan 2022 to 64.6% in Nov 2022.
Its average since Jan 2021 is 60.9%, and the latest reading is below that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Computed from PSA's labour force survey, OpenSTAT 0021B3FKEI2
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
PSA's own "employment rate" is a share of the labour force, so this ratio is computed from PSA's participation and employment rates.
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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