Poverty

Statistics
 Poverty incidence among families, by regions: 2003, 2006
and 2009

Source:
National Statistical Coordination Board
 Monthly Per Capita Food and Poverty
Threshhold (in PhP) in the Philippines: 2009

National:
A Filipino needed Php 974 in 2009 to meet his/her monthly
food needs and PhP 1,403 to stay out of poverty

Source:
National Statistical Coordination Board
NATIONAL:
In 2009, family of five needed PhP 4,869
monthly income to meet food needs and PhP
7,017 to stay out of poverty!
NATIONAL:
In 2009, a family of five needed PhP 231 daily
income to stay out of poverty!
Required Income (in PhP)
Family Size Daily Monthly Annual
1 46 1,403 16,841

2 92 2,807 33,682

3 138 4,210 50,523

4 185 5,614 67,364

5 231 7,017 84,205

6 277 8,421 101,046

7 323 9,824 117,887

8 369 11,227 134,729

NATIONAL:
Subsistence
incidence among
families improved –
from 8.7% in 2006
to 7.9% in 2009.
This means:
One family per 100 was lifted out of food
poverty between 2006 and 2009!
NATIONAL:
In terms of poverty
incidence among
families, there was
only a slight
reduction during the
three-year period –
from 21.1% in 2006
to 20.9% in 2009.
This means:
Two families per 1,000 were lifted out of
poverty between 2006 and 2009!
 Magnitude and percentage share of poor families,
by region: 2003, 2006, 2009

Official Poverty Statistics

National Statistical Coordination Board
 Rate of increase/decrease of poverty incidence
among regions: 2003-2006 & 2006-2009

Source:
National Statistical Coordination Board
Education
Statistics
Only 3 out of 5 grade one
students will finish grade
six.

Only 2 out of 5 will

finish high school.

Only 1 out of 10 will

finish college.
1 in every 4 barangays lacks elementary schools
while about 1/3 of the total barangays have
incomplete elementary schools.
1 in every 5 students
does not have a desk.

1 book : 6 pupils
(elementary)
1 in every 7 students
1 book : 8 students
does not have a
(high school).
classroom.
1 in every 8 schools has a teacher-to-pupil ratio
of 1:50 and above (regular class size is 60-70
students).

Shortage of
teachers
(elementary and
HS) was recorded
at 19,426 in 2001.
 1.4 million students fall out of school every year.

Reasons:
30.5% looking for work
22% lack of personal interest
19.9% high cost of education
 In 2002, 9% of families with 6-12 y.o. children do
not send their children to elementary schools and
13% of families with 13-16 y.o. do not send their
children to highschool (NSO, 2002)

 13,000 barangays in the country do not have

elementary schools

 13 municipalities in 4 regions
do not have secondary school

 Inaccessibility of quality
education especially among
poor households
 Health
Statistics
Infant Mortality Rates,
by regions: 2008
 Maternal Mortality Rates, by region: 2008

Source Field Health Services Information System Annual Report 2008

 Delivery by attendants,
by regions: 2008

Source Field Health Services Information System Annual Report 2008

 Deliveries by place, by region: 2008

Source Field Health Services Information System Annual Report 2008

Majority of the 64 million
Filipinos cannot avail of
adequate health care.
13 million Filipinos
have no access to
safe water.

16 million Filipinos have

no access to a sanitary
toilet.
 2 babies die every hour
from pneumonia,
diarrhea, measles, and
malnutrition.

11 out of 16
Filipinos die
everyday from
diarrhea.
For every 10 deaths,
6 were not seen by a
doctor.
Philippines is:
# 1 in the world for
whooping cough,
diphtheria, and rabies

# 3 in the world for

blindness due to
Vit. A deficiency

#1 in the Western Pacific

Region for tuberculosis
and polio