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Unemployment rate in the Philippines from 1991 to 2025

Characteristic	Unemployment rate
2025	2.24%
2024	2.2%
2023	2.2%
2022	2.6%
2021	3.4%
2020	2.52%
2019	2.24%
2018	2.34%
2017	2.55%
2016	2.7%
2015	3.07%
2014	3.6%
2013	3.5%
2012	3.5%
2011	3.59%
2010	3.61%
2009	3.86%
2008	3.72%
2007	3.43%
2006	4.05%
2005	3.8%
2004	3.55%
2003	3.53%
2002	3.62%
2001	3.7%
2000	3.77%
1999	3.75%
1998	3.7%
1997	3.59%
1996	3.61%
1995	3.68%
1994	3.77%
1993	3.87%
1992	3.85%
1991	3.73%

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July 2026

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Philippines

Survey time period

1991 to 2025

Supplementary notes

All figures are modeled ILO estimates.

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In 2025, the unemployment rate in the Philippines was 2.24 percent, compared with 2.2 percent in the previous year.

Souvenirs from overseas

The Philippines’ economy relies heavily on remittances from overseas, i.e. money sent home by Filipino emigrants and workers in other countries. In 2016 alone, approximately 30 billion U.S. dollars were received as remittances in the Philippines, and the amount seems to increase significantly every year. This makes the Philippines one of the leading countries worldwide when it comes to receiving remittances, only surpassed by India and China.

Visitors from overseas

The Philippines’ economy is stable, not only because of remittances, but also because of a flourishing services sector, which is now the main generator of GDP in the country; tourism and IT in particular contribute to economic growth. More than half of the Philippines workforce is employed in services.