Facts and figures of the Philippines

(Numbers in parentheses refer to the OECD average)

The land, people and electoral cycle
Population (million)^d	100.7	Official language	Filipino (Tagalog), English
Under 15 (%)^d	31.9 (18)	Form of government	Constitutional republic
Population density (per km²)^d	338 (37)	Last presidential election	May 9th 2016
Land area (thousand km²)	298.1
The economy
GDP, current prices (billion USD)^d	292.5	Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)^d	28.2 (28.5)
GDP growth (%)^d	5.9 (2.1)	Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)^d	34.8 (28.2)
GDP per capita, PPP (thousand USD)^d	6.9 (38.0)	GDP shares (%)^c
Inflation rate^d	1.4 (0.2)	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	11.3 (1.6)
General government total expenditure (% of GDP)^c	18.1	Industry, including construction	31.3 (24.2)
General government revenue (% of GDP)^c	18.9	Services	57.4 (74.2)
Well-being
Life satisfaction (average on 1-10 scale)^d	5.5 (6.5)	Proportion of population under national minimum income standard (%)^a	25.2
Life expectancy^c	68 (80)	Unemployment rate (%)^c	7.1 (7.3)
Income inequality (Gini coefficient)^a	43 (31)	Youth unemployment rate (ages 15 to 24, %)^c	16.4 (15.9)
Gender inequality (SIGI index)^c	0.1765 (0.0224)	Satisfaction with the availability of affordable housing (% satisfied)^d	58 (55)
Labour force participation (% of 15 to 64 year old)^c	67.1 (70.7)	Enrolment rates (%)
Employment-to-population ratio (15 and over, %)^c	60.0 (55.4)	Primary (Net)^b	96 (96)
Households with improved sanitation facilities (%)^d	73.9 (97.8)	Secondary (Gross)^b	88 (103)
Expected years of schooling^b	12.8	Tertiary (Gross)^c	36 (70)
Notes: a) Data for 2012; b) Data for 2013; c) Data for 2014; d) Data for 2015.
Sources: World Bank (2015) World Development Indicators (database), http://data.worldbank.org/; OECD, Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), www.genderindex.org/; IMF (2016), World Economic Outlook Database, International Monetary Fund, October 2016 edition; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, http://stats.uis.unesco.org; Gallup (2015), Gallup World Poll (database), Gallup Organisation.