Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Philippines

Poverty at the national line in the Philippines in 2023 — 15.5%. Ranked 13 in the world out of 40. Since 2015, the indicator has fallen by 8 pp.

2023 15.5% −2.6 pp vs 2021
World rank 13of 40
Period maximum 23.5%2015
Period minimum 15.5%2023

Trend over time

2015–2023 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Philippines, 2015–20231416182022242015201620172018201920202021202220232015: 23.5%2018: 16.7%2021: 18.1%2023: 15.5%
Change over the period: −8 pp Annual average: -1 pp
Poverty at the national line — Philippines, by year Philippines All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 15.5
2021 18.1
2018 16.7
2015 23.5

South-Eastern Asia, 2023

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.