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In 2010, half of the 2.9 million unemployed Filipinos were age 15–24. [21] More than half of the unemployed youth are stuck due to lack of job opportunities, lack of skills and the competition with older ones. This lack of training and skills and incompetence may be due to poor education. [15] On the other hand, there is the job and skill ...
This is a list of regions and provinces of the Philippines by poverty rate as of 2021. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The national poverty rate of the Philippines was estimated to be at 22.4% in early 2023.
Share of population in extreme poverty (1981–2019) In 2023, official government statistics reported that the Philippines had a poverty rate of 15.5%, [1] [2] (or roughly 17.54 million Filipinos), significantly lower than the 49.2 percent recorded in 1985 through years of government poverty reduction efforts. [3]
Zero indicates perfect equality, while 100 indicates perfect inequality. In the Philippines in 2015, the Gini Coefficient was approximately 0.4439. This is a slightly smaller number in comparison to a few years prior (in 2012, 0.4605). This means a bit more even wealth distribution across families. [3]
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining near seven-month lows. Jobless claim applications fell by 2,000 to 213,000 for the week of Nov. 23, the Labor ...
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The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits rose by 42,000 to about 1.86 million for the week of Sept. 28, the most since late July. Outside of the weather and labor strife, some ...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Estadistika ng Pilipinas; PSA) is the central statistical authority of the Philippine government that collects, compiles, analyzes, and publishes statistical information on economic, social, demographic, political affairs, and general affairs of the people of the Philippines, as well as enforcing the civil registration functions in ...