The total imported goods by the country for the month of July 2016 amounted to $6.726 billion, a decrease of 1.7 percent from $6.846 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.

The Philippines’ export sales amounted to $4.673 billion in July 2016, a 13.0 percent decrease from $5.371 billion recorded value in July 2015.

The employment rate in July 2016 was estimated at 94.6 percent. Four regions, namely, CALABARZON (92.4%), National Capital Region (NCR) (93.5%), Central Luzon (93.8%), and Northern Mindanao (93.9%) had the lowest employment rates (Table 4). The…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing decreased at a slower rate of 4.1 percent in July 2016 compared with a negative 6.7 percent during the same period last year.

The annual headline inflation at the national level decelerated to 1.8 percent in August 2016. Last month, it was recorded at 1.9 percent and in August 2015, 0.6 percent. Slowdowns in the annual increases were noted in the indices of food and non-…

Total number of constructions in the second quarter of 2016 reached 39,635, according to the preliminary results of construction statistics from approved building permits. This reflects an increase of 20.2 percent from the 32,974 constructions…

The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the national level moved at its July rate of 0.1 percent in August.

With a total land area of approximately 300,000 square kilometers, the population density of the Philippines in 2015 was posted at 337 persons per square kilometer.

The annual growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) slowed down to 2.2 percent in July 2016.

Based on approved building permits, total number of constructions for the year 2015 totaled to132,006. This number edged up by 4.0 percent compared with the 126,875 constructions recorded in 2014.