Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 07:17 PM, Aug 22, 2023

August 22, 2023

Dear Johann Gayares,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Jun 28, 2023 02:31:23 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for The Number of Registered Nurses.

Your FOI request is approved. 

Our apologies for the delayed response.

In reference to your data request, please be informed that our data on this are limited to the following:

For data requests 1 and 3, you may refer to our 2022 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 9: VITAL, HEALTH and NUTRITION STATISTICS: https://psa.gov.ph/philippine-statistical-yearbook
Table 9.13  Number of Government Medical Practitioners by Region: 2011 to 2021: https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/psy/2022_T9_13.xlsx

2022 Philippine Statistical Yearbook (PSY) Chapter 11: LABOR and EMPLOYMENT: https://psa.gov.ph/philippine-statistical-yearbook
Table 11.8  Employed Persons by Major Industry Group and Major Occupation Group, Philippines: 2017 to 2021: https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/psy/2022_T11_8.xlsx

Table 11.9 Employed Persons by Region and Major Industry Group, Philippines: 2018 to 2021: https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/psy/2022_T11_9.xlsx

You may refer to our Labor Force Survey: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/labor-force-survey
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/labor-force-survey/press-release

For this data, you may check the following links:
Philippine Nurses Association: https://pna-ph.org/
Department of Health: https://doh.gov.ph/

For data on the number of registered Filipino Nurses who are working abroad, unfortunately, we do not have specific data on this but you may try to check our available data on Survey on Overseas Filipinos: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/survey-overseas-filipinos

Survey on Overseas Filipinos Tables: https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/survey-overseas-filipinos/stat-tables
https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/survey-overseas-filipinos/index

Survey on Overseas Filipinos Publication: https://library.psa.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=ccl%3Dse%2Cphr%3A%22Survey+on+Overseas+Filipino.%22&sort_by=pubdate_dsc&addto=Add+to...

You may also visit the links below:
a) Philippine Nurses Association: https://pna-ph.org/
b) Department of Health: https://doh.gov.ph/
c) REPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES:
Figure 5: Philippines: number of nurses passing licensing exam, 2012-18; number of nurses deployed abroad, 2012-2016: https://www.icn.ch/system/files/documents/2020-07/COVID19_internationalsupplyofnurses_Report_FINAL.pdf

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Respectfully,

Noel G. Perez
(Information Technology Officer III)
Officer-in-Charge
Information Technology and Dissemination Service