FAST FACTS: Overseas Filipino workers
3.9 million: Stock estimate of Filipinos abroad whose stay overseas is employment-related, as of 2009, according to Commission on Filipinos Overseas.
1.4 million: Deployed overseas Filipino workers, according to Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (2009)
1,092,162: Deployed land-based OFWs (POEA, 2009)
330,424: Deployed sea-based OFWs (POEA, 2009)
61.3 percent: Land-based OFWs deployed in the Middle East, the top destination of deployed land-based OFWs, or 669,042 out of 1,092,162 land-based OFWs (POEA, 2009)
710,557: Land-based OFWs who are employed as household service workers, the top occupation of deployed land-based OFWs (POEA, 2009)
$6.2 billion: OFW remittances from January to April 2011, according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Inquirer Research
Source: CFO, POEA, BSP
