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Economy Stats: compare key data on Philippines & Saint Helena

Definitions

  • Budget > Expenditures: Expenditures calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms
  • Budget > Revenues: Revenues calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms
  • Currency: The national medium of exchange and its basic sub-unit.
  • Overview: This entry briefly describes the type of economy, including the degree of market orientation, the level of economic development, the most important natural resources, and the unique areas of specialization. It also characterizes major economic events and policy changes in the most recent 12 months and may include a statement about one or two key future macroeconomic trends.
  • Exports: This entry provides the total US dollar amount of merchandise exports on an f.o.b. (free on board) basis. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
  • Exports > Commodities: This entry provides a listing of the highest-valued exported products; it sometimes includes the percent of total dollar value.
  • Fiscal year: The beginning and ending months for a country's accounting period of 12 months, which often is the calendar year but which may begin in any month. All yearly references are for the calendar year (CY) unless indicated as a noncalendar fiscal year (FY).
  • GDP > Per capita > PPP: This entry shows GDP on a purchasing power parity basis divided by population as of 1 July for the same year.
  • GDP > Purchasing power parity: This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States. This is the measure most economists prefer when looking at per-capita welfare and when comparing living conditions or use of resources across countries. The measure is difficult to compute, as a US dollar value has to be assigned to all goods and services in the country regardless of whether these goods and services have a direct equivalent in the United States (for example, the value of an ox-cart or non-US military equipment); as a result, PPP estimates for some countries are based on a small and sometimes different set of goods and services. In addition, many countries do not formally participate in the World Bank's PPP project that calculates these measures, so the resulting GDP estimates for these countries may lack precision. For many developing countries, PPP-based GDP measures are multiples of the official exchange rate (OER) measure. The difference between the OER- and PPP-denominated GDP values for most of the weathly industrialized countries are generally much smaller.
  • Imports: This entry provides the total US dollar amount of merchandise imports on a c.i.f. (cost, insurance, and freight) or f.o.b. (free on board) basis. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
  • Industries: A rank ordering of industries starting with the largest by value of annual output.
  • Inflation rate > Consumer prices: This entry furnishes the annual percent change in consumer prices compared with the previous year's consumer prices.
  • Labor force: This entry contains the total labor force figure.
  • Unemployment rate: This entry contains the percent of the labor force that is without jobs. Substantial underemployment might be noted.
  • Exchange rates: The official value of a country's monetary unit at a given date or over a given period of time, as expressed in units of local currency per US dollar and as determined by international market forces or official fiat.
  • Economic aid > Recipient: This entry, which is subject to major problems of definition and statistical coverage, refers to the net inflow of Official Development Finance (ODF) to recipient countries. The figure includes assistance from the World Bank, the IMF, and other international organizations and from individual nation donors. Formal commitments of aid are included in the data. Omitted from the data are grants by private organizations. Aid comes in various forms including outright grants and loans. The entry thus is the difference between new inflows and repayments.
  • Trade > Exports to US: in US dollars. Jan 2003 - March 2003
  • Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture: This entry is derived from Economy > Labor force > By occupation, which lists the percentage distribution of the labor force by sector of occupation. Agriculture includes farming, fishing, and forestry. Industry includes mining, manufacturing, energy production, and construction. Services cover government activities, communications, transportation, finance, and all other economic activities that do not produce material goods. The distribution will total less than 100 percent if the data are incomplete and may range from 99-101 percent due to rounding.
    Additional details:
    • Gibraltar: negligible (2013)
  • Labor force > By occupation > Services: This entry is derived from Economy > Labor force > By occupation, which lists the percentage distribution of the labor force by sector of occupation. Agriculture includes farming, fishing, and forestry. Industry includes mining, manufacturing, energy production, and construction. Services cover government activities, communications, transportation, finance, and all other economic activities that do not produce material goods. The distribution will total less than 100 percent if the data are incomplete and may range from 99-101 percent due to rounding.
  • Trade > Imports: This entry provides the total US dollar amount of merchandise imports on a c.i.f. (cost, insurance, and freight) or f.o.b. (free on board) basis. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
  • Oil > Exports: This entry is the total oil exported in barrels per day (bbl/day), including both crude oil and oil products.
    Additional details:
    • Bahamas, The: transshipments of 41,570 bbl/day (2007)
    • Bahamas, The: transshipments of 41,610 bbl/day (2009)
  • Oil > Production: This entry is the total oil produced in barrels per day (bbl/day). The discrepancy between the amount of oil produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes, refinery gains, and other complicating factors.
  • Trade > Exports: The total US dollar amount of exports on an f.o.b. (free on board) basis.
  • Imports > Commodities: This entry provides a listing of the highest-valued imported products; it sometimes includes the percent of total dollar value.
  • Labor force per thousand people: This entry contains the total labor force figure. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Oil > Proved reserves: This entry is the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl). Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
  • Natural gas > Production: This entry is the total natural gas produced in cubic meters (cu m). The discrepancy between the amount of natural gas produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes and other complicating factors.
  • Oil > Consumption: This entry is the total oil consumed in barrels per day (bbl/day). The discrepancy between the amount of oil produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes, refinery gains, and other complicating factors.
  • Electricity > Consumption: This entry consists of total electricity generated annually plus imports and minus exports, expressed in kilowatt-hours. The discrepancy between the amount of electricity generated and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is accounted for as loss in transmission and distribution.
  • Oil > Consumption per thousand people: This entry is the total oil consumed in barrels per day (bbl/day). The discrepancy between the amount of oil produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes, refinery gains, and other complicating factors. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Labor force > By occupation > Industry: This entry is derived from Economy > Labor force > By occupation, which lists the percentage distribution of the labor force by sector of occupation. Agriculture includes farming, fishing, and forestry. Industry includes mining, manufacturing, energy production, and construction. Services cover government activities, communications, transportation, finance, and all other economic activities that do not produce material goods. The distribution will total less than 100 percent if the data are incomplete and may range from 99-101 percent due to rounding.
  • Electricity > Production: This entry is the annual electricity generated expressed in kilowatt-hours. The discrepancy between the amount of electricity generated and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is accounted for as loss in transmission and distribution.
  • Oil > Production per thousand people: This entry is the total oil produced in barrels per day (bbl/day). The discrepancy between the amount of oil produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes, refinery gains, and other complicating factors. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Oil > Imports: This entry is the total oil imported in barrels per day (bbl/day), including both crude oil and oil products.
  • Trade balance with US: In US dollars. Jan 2003 - March 2003
  • Natural gas > Proved reserves per capita: This entry is the stock of proved reserves of natural gas in cubic meters (cu m). Proved reserves are those quantities of natural gas, which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
  • Natural gas > Consumption: This entry is the total natural gas consumed in cubic meters (cu m). The discrepancy between the amount of natural gas produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes and other complicating factors.
  • Natural gas > Proved reserves: This entry is the stock of proved reserves of natural gas in cubic meters (cu m). Proved reserves are those quantities of natural gas, which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
STAT Philippines Saint Helena HISTORY
Agriculture > Products sugarcane, coconuts, rice, corn, bananas, cassavas, pineapples, mangoes; pork, eggs, beef; fish coffee, corn, potatoes, vegetables; timber; fish, lobster; livestock
Budget > Expenditures $42.10 billion
Ranked 59th. 1675 times more than Saint Helena
$25.14 million
Ranked 23th.
Budget > Revenues $36.35 billion
Ranked 59th. 3553 times more than Saint Helena
$10.23 million
Ranked 217th.
Currency Philippine peso Saint Helenian pound
Overview Philippine GDP growth, which cooled from 7.6% in 2010 to 3.9% in 2011, expanded to 6.6% in 2012 - meeting the government's targeted 6%-7% growth range. The 2012 expansion partly reflected a rebound from depressed 2011 export and public sector spending levels. The economy has weathered global economic and financial downturns better than its regional peers due to minimal exposure to troubled international securities, lower dependence on exports, relatively resilient domestic consumption, large remittances from four- to five-million overseas Filipino workers, and a rapidly expanding business process outsourcing industry. The current account balance had recorded consecutive surpluses since 2003; international reserves are at record highs; the banking system is stable; and the stock market was Asia's second best-performer in 2012. Efforts to improve tax administration and expenditure management have helped ease the Philippines' tight fiscal situation and reduce high debt levels. The Philippines received several credit rating upgrades on its sovereign debt in 2012, and has had little difficulty tapping domestic and international markets to finance its deficits. Achieving a higher growth path nevertheless remains a pressing challenge. Economic growth in the Philippines averaged 4.5% during the MACAPAGAL-ARROYO administration but poverty worsened during her term. Growth has accelerated under the AQUINO government, but with limited progress thus far in bringing down unemployment, which hovers around 7%, and improving the quality of jobs. Underemployment is nearly 20% and more than 40% of the employed are estimated to be working in the informal sector. The AQUINO administration has been working to boost the budgets for education, health, cash transfers to the poor, and other social spending programs, and is relying on the private sector to help fund major infrastructure projects under its Public-Private Partnership program. Long term challenges include reforming governance and the judicial system, building infrastructure, improving regulatory predictability, and the ease of doing business, attracting higher levels of local and foreign investments. The Philippine Constitution and the other laws continue to restrict foreign ownership in important activities/sectors (such as land ownership and public utilities). The economy depends largely on financial assistance from the UK, which amounted to about $27 million in FY06/07 or more than twice the level of annual budgetary revenues. The local population earns income from fishing, raising livestock, and sales of handicrafts. Because there are few jobs, 25% of the work force has left to seek employment on Ascension Island, on the Falklands, and in the UK.
Exports $46.28 billion
Ranked 58th. 2436 times more than Saint Helena
$19.00 million
Ranked 7th.
Exports > Commodities semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, coconut oil, fruits fish (frozen, canned, and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), coffee, handicrafts
Fiscal year calendar year 1 April - 31 March
GDP > Per capita > PPP $4,400.00
Ranked 130th. 76% more than Saint Helena
$2,500.00
Ranked 1st.

GDP > Purchasing power parity $419.60 billion
Ranked 31st. 23311 times more than Saint Helena
$18.00 million
Ranked 1st.

Imports $61.49 billion
Ranked 46th. 1366 times more than Saint Helena
$45.00 million
Ranked 13th.
Industries electronics assembly, garments, footwear, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood products, food processing, petroleum refining, fishing construction, crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fishing, philatelic sales
Inflation rate > Consumer prices 3.2%
Ranked 114th. The same as Saint Helena
3.2%
Ranked 1st.

Labor force 40
Ranked 69th. 20 times more than Saint Helena
2
Ranked 202nd.

Unemployment rate 7%
Ranked 62nd.
14%
Ranked 2nd. Twice as much as Philippines
Exchange rates Philippine pesos (PHP) per US dollar -<br />42.23 (2012 est.)<br />43.31 (2011 est.)<br />45.11 (2010 est.)<br />47.68 (2009)<br />44.44 (2008) Saint Helenian pounds (SHP) per US dollar -<br />0.6388 (2010)<br />0.6175 (2009)<br />0.4993 (2007)<br />0.5418 (2006)<br />
GDP > CIA Factbook $390.70 billion
Ranked 25th. 21706 times more than Saint Helena
$18.00 million
Ranked 2nd.
Economic aid > Recipient $451.40 million
Ranked 5th. 36 times more than Saint Helena
$12.60 million
Ranked 30th.
Trade > Exports to US $2.61 billion
Ranked 21st. 1006 times more than Saint Helena
$2.60 million
Ranked 154th.
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 32%
Ranked 71st. 5 times more than Saint Helena
6%
Ranked 141st.

Labor force > By occupation > Services 53%
Ranked 16th. 15% more than Saint Helena
46%
Ranked 1st.
Trade > Imports $59.90 billion
Ranked 41st. 1331 times more than Saint Helena
$45.00 million
Ranked 56th.

Oil > Exports 60,460 bbl/day
Ranked 73th.
0.0
Ranked 205th.

Oil > Production 33,110 bbl/day
Ranked 66th.
0.0
Ranked 210th.

Trade > Exports $50.72 billion
Ranked 52nd. 2669 times more than Saint Helena
$19.00 million
Ranked 49th.

Imports > Commodities electronic products, mineral fuels, machinery and transport equipment, iron and steel, textile fabrics, grains, chemicals, plastic food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed, building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts
Labor force per thousand people 0.000378
Ranked 170th.
0.26
Ranked 78th. 686 times more than Philippines

Oil > Proved reserves 138.5 million bbl
Ranked 62nd.
0.0
Ranked 198th.

Natural gas > Production 3.15 billion cu m
Ranked 45th.
0.0
Ranked 190th.

Oil > Consumption 310,000 bbl/day
Ranked 40th. 3100 times more than Saint Helena
100 bbl/day
Ranked 209th.

Electricity > Consumption 54.4 billion kWh
Ranked 14th. 7312 times more than Saint Helena
7.44 million kWh
Ranked 165th.

Oil > Consumption per thousand people 3.32 bbl/day
Ranked 159th.
13.04 bbl/day
Ranked 107th. 4 times more than Philippines
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 15%
Ranked 118th.
48%
Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than Philippines

Electricity > Production 59.19 billion kWh
Ranked 36th. 7399 times more than Saint Helena
8 million kWh
Ranked 133th.

Oil > Production per thousand people 0.354 bbl/day
Ranked 98th.
0.0
Ranked 209th.
Oil > Imports 338,400 bbl/day
Ranked 3rd. 3981 times more than Saint Helena
85 bbl/day
Ranked 197th.

Trade balance with US $-524,600,000.00
Ranked 194th. 328 times more than Saint Helena
$-1,600,000.00
Ranked 120th.
Natural gas > Proved reserves per capita 1,036.68 cu m
Ranked 72nd.
0.0
Ranked 197th.

Natural gas > Consumption 3.15 billion cu m
Ranked 60th.
0.0
Ranked 191st.

Natural gas > Proved reserves 98.54 billion cu m
Ranked 50th.
0.0
Ranked 199th.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; CIA World Factbook 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; US Census Bureau; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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