Philippine Overseas Employment Administration(POEA)

Hi Sir/Mam,

I would like to humbly request for the following information for our market study.

1. Estimated OFW population as of 2017 per country
2. Estimated OFW gross remittance value as of 2017 per country

We would like to have some sort of study for reference.

November 19, 2018

Dear Joshua,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Nov 18, 2018 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Lists of countries with total number of OFWs and their gross remittance combined yearly.

Response to your request

We were able to determine that this particular information is already available online and therefore cannot be counted as a valid FOI request. You may retrieve your requested information from http://www.poea.gov.ph/ofwstat/compendium/deployment%202006-2018S1.pdf for deployed OFWs and http://www.bsp.gov.ph/statistics/keystat/ofw.htm for remittances.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
Nascel Gabito
FOI Officer