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Philippines: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1969–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
4.21%percent
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom 3.82%
Average, 2016–2025
5.76%10 years
Record high and low
11.8% (2004)low 3.21% (1974)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20314.37Forecast
20304.37Forecast
20294.42Forecast
20284.52Forecast
20274.57Forecast
20264.72Forecast
20254.21
20243.82
20234.36
20225.40
20217.79
202010.4
20195.10
20185.32
20175.72
20165.47

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1969–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1985–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1991–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Philippines documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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