Poverty Statistics In The Philippines 2024. It indicates that 16 out of 100 individuals were living in poverty in the first semester of 2023, which marks a decrease from 17 out of 100 individuals living in poverty in the first. 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.

Data are compiled from official government. The survey, which covers over 26.3 million households representing 111.4 million persons, showed that low income but not poor families comprise most of the filipino population,.