Poverty in Philippines- What Stats Say & Why They are in News?
About 18.1% of people in the Philippines are considered to be below the national poverty threshold. That is the percentage of the working population—2.2% in 2022—that falls below the $1.90 power parity per day. In the Philippines, the under-mortality rate was 26 per 1000 live births in 2021, and the percentage of the population living … Read more