Unemployment / Philippines
Philippines Unemployment
Philippines unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.24%.
COUNTRY: Philippines
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Philippines · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
75 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
20.0 / 20
External stability
9.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Philippines · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
2.24%
Previous
2.20%
Range avg.
2.50%
Rank
95
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CountryPhilippines
IndicatorUnemployment
2.24%2025 · Rank 95
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Philippines recorded 2.24% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.03 percentage points, from 2.20% to 2.24%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (2.50%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 2.20% in 2023 and the high was 3.40% in 2021.
Comparison
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