Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Aug 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
17.60% on Jun 30, 2020
Lowest
3.10% on Jun 30, 2024
About Philippines unemployment rate
In the Philippines, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Philippines unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Philippines unemployment rate is 3.10%.
The highest figure Philippines unemployment rate has ever reached is 17.60%.
Last month Philippines unemployment rate was 4.00%, and the month before that it amounted to 4.70%.