In 2024, preliminary figures recorded about 2.47 million Filipinos leaving the Philippines to work overseas — a number higher than the previous year's estimates. The number of deployed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) significantly plummeted between 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Leading occupation of deployed OFWs  Among the newly hired land-based overseas Filipino workers in 2023, about 158,000 of them were domestic cleaners and helpers, followed by domestic housekeepers. Filipino domestic cleaners and housekeepers have been in demand in several countries, particularly in the Middle East and Hong Kong. These countries usually offer higher wages and better employment benefits for such jobs, in comparison to employers in the Philippines. Increasing demand for healthcare workers  Aside from domestic cleaners and housekeepers, recent years reflected a growing demand for healthcare workers, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Saudi Arabia was the leading destination of deployed Filipino nurses, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.

Between April and September 2023, 44.4 percent of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were females, while 55.6 percent were males. Most OFWs were between the ages of 30 and 34 years, and the Saudi Arabia was the most popular destination for OFWs during this period.

In 2020, nearly 5,000 cases of maltreatment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) had been reported, the majority of which came from the Middle East with 4,302 cases. About 560 thousand overseas workers were deployed from the Philippines in that year.