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The number of unemployed Filipinos went up to 2.33 million in the month of June, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority's latest labor force survey.
The unemployment rate in January 2023 increased to 4.8% or 2.37 million Filipinos, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority's latest Labor Force Survey.
About half (48.8%) of currently married women aged 15 to 49 years (including women who are sterilized or whose husbands are sterilized) want no more children.