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

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Source: CFO, POEA, BSP