Unemployment rate during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the unemployment 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	Rodrigo Duterte	30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jun 2022	+0.7 pp Q1 2016 → Q1 2022	+0.1 pp/yr
2	PFP Bongbong Marcos	30 Jun 2022 – now	−0.4 pp Q1 2022 → Q3 2026	−0.1 pp/yr
3	LP Benigno Aquino III	30 Jun 2010 – 30 Jun 2016	−1.6 pp Q1 2010 → Q1 2016	−0.3 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 labour force · 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, not seasonally adjusted · Philippines data · as of Oct 2026.