Philippines Social: Poverty and Inequality

Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population

2017 - 2017 | Yearly | % | World Bank

Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data was reported at 5.800 % in 2017. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data is updated yearly, averaging 5.800 % from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2017, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.800 % in 2017 and a record low of 5.800 % in 2017. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: UNDP: % of total population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (UNDP) is the percentage of a population living in poverty according to UNDPs multidimensional poverty index. The index includes three dimensions -- health, education, and living standards.;Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 55, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (https://ophi.org.uk/mpi-methodological-note-55-2/);;

Last Frequency Range
5.800 2017 yearly 2017 - 2017

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Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population

2012 - 2021 | Yearly | % | World Bank

Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data was reported at 4.100 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4.400 % for 2018. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data is updated yearly, averaging 6.500 % from Dec 2012 (Median) to 2021, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.600 % in 2012 and a record low of 4.100 % in 2021. Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: World Bank: % of total population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (World Bank) is the percentage of a population living in poverty according to the World Bank's Multidimensional Poverty Measure. The Multidimensional Poverty Measure includes three dimensions – monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture of poverty.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).

Last Frequency Range
4.100 2021 yearly 2012 - 2021

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PH: Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: Household: % of total households

2016 - 2017 | Yearly | % | World Bank

PH: Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: Household: % of total households data was reported at 17.300 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 23.900 % for 2016. PH: Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: Household: % of total households data is updated yearly, averaging 20.600 % from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.900 % in 2016 and a record low of 17.300 % in 2017. PH: Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: Household: % of total households data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. ;Government statistical agencies. Data for EU countires are from the EUROSTAT;;

Last Frequency Range
17.300 2017 yearly 2016 - 2017

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Philippines PH: Multidimensional Poverty Headcount Ratio: Household: % of total households

PH: Multidimensional Poverty Index: scale 0-1

2016 - 2017 | Yearly | NA | World Bank

PH: Multidimensional Poverty Index: scale 0-1 data was reported at 0.071 NA in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.104 NA for 2016. PH: Multidimensional Poverty Index: scale 0-1 data is updated yearly, averaging 0.087 NA from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2017, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.104 NA in 2016 and a record low of 0.071 NA in 2017. PH: Multidimensional Poverty Index: scale 0-1 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. ;Government statistical agencies. Data for EU countires are from the EUROSTAT;;

Last Frequency Range
0.071 2017 yearly 2016 - 2017

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PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population

2000 - 2021 | Yearly | % | World Bank

PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data was reported at 3.000 % in 2021. This stayed constant from the previous number of 3.000 % for 2018. PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 11.100 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2021, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.900 % in 2006 and a record low of 3.000 % in 2021. PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $2.15 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $2.15 a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).

Last Frequency Range
3.000 2021 yearly 2000 - 2021

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PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population

2000 - 2021 | Yearly | % | World Bank

PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data was reported at 17.800 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 18.300 % for 2018. PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 34.950 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2021, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 39.400 % in 2006 and a record low of 17.800 % in 2021. PH: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.65 a Day: 2017 PPP: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Poverty headcount ratio at $3.65 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.65 a day at 2017 international prices.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).

Last Frequency Range
17.800 2021 yearly 2000 - 2021

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PH: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: %

2000 - 2021 | Yearly | % | World Bank

PH: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data was reported at 11.700 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12.900 % for 2018. PH: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data is updated yearly, averaging 15.850 % from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2021, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17.100 % in 2006 and a record low of 11.700 % in 2021. PH: Proportion of People Living Below 50 Percent Of Median Income: % data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. The percentage of people in the population who live in households whose per capita income or consumption is below half of the median income or consumption per capita. The median is measured at 2017 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the Poverty and Inequality Platform (http://www.pip.worldbank.org). For some countries, medians are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported.;World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see http://pip.worldbank.org.;;The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than 2000 household surveys across 169 countries. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for details (www.pip.worldbank.org).

Last Frequency Range
11.700 2021 yearly 2000 - 2021

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PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day

2015 - 2021 | Yearly | Intl $/Day | World Bank

PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data was reported at 3.730 Intl $/Day in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.130 Intl $/Day for 2015. PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data is updated yearly, averaging 3.430 Intl $/Day from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.730 Intl $/Day in 2021 and a record low of 3.130 Intl $/Day in 2015. PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Mean consumption or income per capita (2017 PPP $ per day) of the bottom 40%, used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country.;World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).;;The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per capita consumption expenditure as the welfare measure wherever available; and to use income as the welfare measure for countries for which consumption is unavailable. However, in some cases data on consumption may be available but are outdated or not shared with the World Bank for recent survey years. In these cases, if data on income are available, income is used. Whether data are for consumption or income per capita is noted in the footnotes. Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.

Last Frequency Range
3.730 2021 yearly 2015 - 2021

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Philippines PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: 2017 PPP per day

PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day

2015 - 2021 | Yearly | Intl $/Day | World Bank

PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data was reported at 8.820 Intl $/Day in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 8.410 Intl $/Day for 2015. PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data is updated yearly, averaging 8.615 Intl $/Day from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.820 Intl $/Day in 2021 and a record low of 8.410 Intl $/Day in 2015. PH: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: 2017 PPP per day data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. Mean consumption or income per capita (2017 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of total population.;World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).;;The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per capita consumption expenditure as the welfare measure wherever available; and to use income as the welfare measure for countries for which consumption is unavailable. However, in some cases data on consumption may be available but are outdated or not shared with the World Bank for recent survey years. In these cases, if data on income are available, income is used. Whether data are for consumption or income per capita is noted in the footnotes. Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.

Last Frequency Range
8.820 2021 yearly 2015 - 2021

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Proportion of Population Pushed Below the 60% Median Consumption Poverty Line By Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: %

1997 - 2015 | Yearly | % | World Bank

Proportion of Population Pushed Below the 60% Median Consumption Poverty Line By Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: % data was reported at 0.960 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.930 % for 2012. Proportion of Population Pushed Below the 60% Median Consumption Poverty Line By Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: % data is updated yearly, averaging 0.720 % from Dec 1997 (Median) to 2015, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.960 % in 2015 and a record low of 0.560 % in 2000. Proportion of Population Pushed Below the 60% Median Consumption Poverty Line By Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: % data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.World Bank.WDI: Social: Poverty and Inequality. This indicator shows the fraction of a country’s population experiencing out-of-pocket health impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household they live in would have been above the 60% median consumption but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line. Out-of-pocket health expenditure is defined as any spending incurred by a household when any member uses a health good or service to receive any type of care (preventive, curative, rehabilitative, long-term or palliative care); provided by any type of provider; for any type of disease, illness or health condition; in any type of setting (outpatient, inpatient, at home).;Global Health Observatory. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. (https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/financial-protection);Weighted average;This indicator is related to Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.2 [https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/].

Last Frequency Range
0.960 2015 yearly 1997 - 2015

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Philippines Proportion of Population Pushed Below the 60% Median Consumption Poverty Line By Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: %
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