Southeast Asia
Philippines
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Philippines's #6 import source (world lens). Philippines is the EU's #62 goods supplier.
Philippines on the world stage
Total imports
$135.1bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$73.3bn
207 partners
#1 import source
China
25.5%
#1 export dest.
USA
16.6%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Philippines and the EU
EU imports from
€9.5bn
0.4% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€8.1bn
0.3% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #62 supplier
EU trade balance
import-tilted
coverage 0.85
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
172
EUR/MWh
Consumer
192
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
618
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
27%
of generation
Wholesale 64 EUR/MWh · market market
Power market
● High-tariff liberalised marketMarket model
Competitive wholesale market
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: open
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Independent
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)
A fully liberalised but high-tariff, thin-reserve market stranded on fragmented island grids with no international interconnection, so price and reliability both ride on imported coal and LNG rather than on any resource…
Tracked infrastructure
7 gas plants
2.1 GW · 5 building
64 coal plants
12.5 GW · 3 building
9 wind farms
435 MW · 2 building
58 solar farms
3.3 GW · 40 building
15 hydro plants
3.3 GW
0 steel plants
capacity n/a · 1 building
2 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
20
7 production-backed
Acid-drainage prone
15
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Nickel, Gold, Other (poly)-metallic
Mine-water verifiability
Blind spot
no open discharge data for the nickel sector
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (11)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
25.7
→ 35.9 by 2050
Fertility
1.89
below replacement
Working-age
66.6%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
8.2
→ 16.1 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 116M · peaks 2057
By 2050: +16% (134M)