Philippines
Republic of the Philippines
- Region
- Asia · South-Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Manila
- Population
- 116,786,962 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Philippine peso (PHP)
- Official languages
- English, Filipino
- Spoken languages
- Tagalog 39.9%, Bisaya/Binisaya 16%, Hiligaynon/Ilonggo 7.3%, Ilocano 7.1%, Cebuano 6.5%, Bikol/Bicol 3.9%, Waray 2.6%, Kapampangan 2.4%, Maguindanao 1.4%, Pangasinan/Panggalato 1.3%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 342,353 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, ASEAN, IMF, WCO, WTO
Political stability
53 / 100
Economic stability
67 / 100
Population stability
79 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- integrated circuits, machine parts, gold, insulated wire, semiconductors (2023)
- Key imports
- integrated circuits, refined petroleum, cars, crude petroleum, coal (2023)
- Natural resources
- timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper
- Critical minerals
- Major nickel ore supplier.
- Primary route
- Strait of Malacca corridor on Asia–Europe and intra-Asia lanes
- Secondary route
- Transpacific services to North America
The xin.bz view
- The Philippines is front-loading rice: imports reached roughly 3.3–3.5M t by early August against an expected El Niño production loss of around 750,000 t — precautionary stock building that moves the market ahead of the harvest.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
Vessel-Days Are Becoming the Scarce Asset in Global Shipping
The merchant fleet is growing while effective capacity tightens — Hormuz detours, Panama slot cuts, war-risk insurance, officer shortages and drydocking are consuming the ship-days that move cargo.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Scandium Is the Tiny Alloying Market With Outsized Aerospace, Defense, and Additive-Manufacturing Potential
Scandium deep dive — the tiny by-product market with outsized aerospace, defense, and additive-manufacturing potential, gated by recovery and refining capacity.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.