Philippines Unemployment Rate
The share of the labour force that wants a job and is actively looking, but can't find one.
5.3%
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Jan 2021 to Aug 2026
Source: PSA labour force survey, OpenSTAT 0021B3FKEI2 · unemployment rate, both sexes, not seasonally adjusted, monthly, from January 2021.
Philippines Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Philippines, the unemployment rate rose by 1.4pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 3.9% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.1% in Dec 2023 to 8.9% in Sep 2021.
Its average since Jan 2021 is 5.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Philippines is 28th of 54 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
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- Source
- PSA 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
The survey became monthly in 2021; before that it ran four times a year.
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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