Employment rate during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the employment rate changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#	President	In office	Total	Per year
1	PFP Bongbong Marcos	30 Jun 2022 – now	+3.1 pp Q1 2022 → Q3 2026	+0.7 pp/yr
2	LP Benigno Aquino III	30 Jun 2010 – 30 Jun 2016	+0.1 pp Q1 2010 → Q1 2016	0.0 pp/yr
3	Rodrigo Duterte	30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jun 2022	−3.3 pp Q1 2016 → Q1 2022	−0.5 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in pp; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. % of people 15 and over · Philippine Statistics Authority (OpenSTAT), Labour Force Survey, the January, April, July and October rounds (the survey has run every month since 2021), persons 15 and over, from April 2005: employed persons over the population 15 and over (PSA's own 'employment rate' is the employed over the labour force) · Philippines data · as of Oct 2026.