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Poverty in the Philippines. 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 ]
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.
This is a list of regions and provinces of the Philippines by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2019. [1] The HDI is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics ...
There are 876,842 public school teachers in the Philippines as of 2021. [109] The teacher-learner ratio in Philippine public schools in 2020 was 1:28 in public elementary schools, 1:25 in junior high school, and 1:29 in senior high school. [110] There are 500,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members in private schools as of 2022.
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 ...
The agency, then known as POPCOM, was created in 1969 by virtue of Executive Order (EO) 171 [1] which established a 22-member Commission on Population. [2]Republic Act 6365, [3] or the Population Act of the Philippines, [4] was enacted into law by the Philippine Congress on August 16, 1971, which established the National Population Policy.
The National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is a data bank and an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are in the Republic of the Philippines. [ 1] Data collection began in response to findings by the National Statistical Coordination Board that 30% of Filipino families have an income ...