Philippines Poverty Rate 2000-2025

Philippines poverty rate for 2021 was 55.30%, a 1.8% increase from 2018.
  • Philippines poverty rate for 2018 was 53.50%, a 6.6% decline from 2015.
  • Philippines poverty rate for 2015 was 60.10%, a 4.8% decline from 2012.
  • Philippines poverty rate for 2012 was 64.90%, a 1.2% decline from 2009.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international 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.