In 2021, official government statistics reported that the Philippines had a poverty rate of 18.1%, (or roughly 19.99 million Filipinos), significantly...

the Philippines by poverty rate as of 2021. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The national poverty...

in the number of street children. In 2015, 31.4% of children in the Philippines lived below the poverty line, with poverty rates for children in the Autonomous...

Education in the Philippines is compulsory at the basic education level, composed of kindergarten, elementary school (grades 1–6), junior high school...

In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. Some of the many causes...

Porohanon, spoken in Camotes Islands of Cebu. Poverty incidence of Central Visayas Central Visayas has the fourth-largest economy in the Philippines. Cebu City...

the Municipality of Marilao (Tagalog: Bayan ng Marilao), is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020...

been linked to the spread of pagpag food and the food crisis in 2008 was said to be the cause in the rise of poverty in the Philippines. The National Statistical...

Urban areas in the Philippines such as Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao have large informal settlements. The Philippine Statistics Authority...

single reason for the widespread prevalence of prostitution in the Philippines. Poverty is but one reason, as cultural factors and the attitude of people...