How the source defines it
PSA Tables 8.7 to 8.10 report Outbound Philippine Residents by port of disembarkation, nationality, age group and purpose of travel. The source population is residents leaving the Philippines, including Philippine and foreign nationals. Named city and port cuts and the nationality, age and purpose dimensions remain source dimensions. The aggregate period labelled 2017-2024 in the port table is unresolved and is held rather than treated as an annual observation. The monthly metric retains only explicit month periods from the source metadata; it does not turn the port table's combined period into monthly observations.
What to watch when comparing
- Outbound resident departures count residents leaving the Philippines, not arrivals into the destination they visit.
- Philippine and foreign nationals are included in the source population; the nationality breakdown is not a unique-person measure.
- The port table's unresolved 2017-2024 aggregate is held, and source rows are not added across tables to create a synthetic total.