People
Population
112.73M
1 July 2024 • Philippine Statistics Authority
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Philippines Social Reality Dashboard
A source-by-source view of national conditions that shape learning, work and household resilience. These are official external statistics—not Bayanihan+ results.
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Work & opportunity
Unemployment rate
6.0%
July 2026 • Philippine Statistics Authority
Work & opportunity
Underemployment rate
12.9%
July 2026 • Philippine Statistics Authority
Poverty & households
Families below the poverty threshold
1.90M
2025 • Philippine Statistics Authority
Youth & education
Functional literacy rate
70.8%
2024 • Philippine Statistics Authority
Economic context
Headline inflation
6.1%
August 2026 • Philippine Statistics Authority
Labor-market rates
Selected official Labor Force Survey reference periods. Rates are not seasonally adjusted.
| Period | Unemployment | Underemployment |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2025 | 4.5% | 14.8% |
| Apr 2026 | 4.1% | 15.2% |
| Jul 2026 | 6% | 12.9% |
Selected regional unemployment rates
Regions with rates above the July 2026 national rate of 6.0%.
| Region | Rate |
|---|---|
| NCR | 8.2% |
| Bicol | 8% |
| Ilocos | 7% |
| Central Visayas | 6.3% |
| Caraga | 6.15% |
| CALABARZON | 6.07% |
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Labor Force Survey. Regional values show selected regions above the national rate, not a complete ranking.
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People
Population
112.73M
Total population counted in the 2024 Census of Population.
- Published
- July 11, 2025
- Method
- 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN)
- Update cycle
- census
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Provides the denominator and scale for nationwide access, work and community-support planning.
Work & opportunity
Unemployment rate
6.0%
Share of the labor force without work, currently available for work and seeking work, subject to official LFS definitions.
- Published
- September 8, 2026
- Method
- Monthly Labor Force Survey
- Update cycle
- monthly
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Shows the scale of job-access pressure relevant to skills, readiness and opportunity pathways.
Equivalent to about 3.14 million unemployed people in the July 2026 LFS.
Open official Philippine Statistics Authority sourceUnderemployment rate
12.9%
Share of employed people who wanted additional hours of work, an additional job, or a new job with longer hours.
- Published
- September 8, 2026
- Method
- Monthly Labor Force Survey
- Update cycle
- monthly
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Employment alone can hide insufficient hours or income; this helps frame job-quality needs.
Equivalent to about 6.33 million underemployed people in the July 2026 LFS.
Open official Philippine Statistics Authority sourcePoverty & households
Families below the poverty threshold
1.90M
Estimated number of families whose income was below the official poverty threshold.
- Published
- August 14, 2026
- Method
- Family Income and Expenditure Survey-based official poverty statistics
- Update cycle
- periodic
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Connects skills and work pathways with the household conditions those pathways are intended to improve.
The corresponding poverty incidence among families was 6.4%; 11.08 million people or 9.7% of the population were estimated poor.
Open official Philippine Statistics Authority sourceYouth & education
Functional literacy rate
70.8%
Share of people age 10 and over who can read, write, compute and comprehend, under the 2024 FLEMMS definition.
- Published
- August 28, 2025
- Method
- 2024 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey
- Update cycle
- periodic
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Learning, digital access and job-readiness programs must account for comprehension—not enrollment alone.
About 60.2 million Filipinos age 10 and over were functionally literate.
Open official Philippine Statistics Authority sourceWorking children aged 5–17
868,540
Estimated number of children aged 5 to 17 who worked during the reference period under the official survey definition.
- Published
- June 12, 2026
- Method
- Annual estimates from the Labor Force Survey working-children module
- Update cycle
- annual
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Signals education, safeguarding and household-income pressures that require referral-aware program design.
Economic context
Headline inflation
6.1%
Year-on-year change in the national Consumer Price Index for all income households.
- Published
- September 4, 2026
- Method
- Consumer Price Index, 2018 base year
- Update cycle
- monthly
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Rising prices affect the real value of wages, training access, transport, food and household resilience.
National government debt
₱19.39T
Outstanding National Government debt reported by the Bureau of the Treasury.
- Published
- September 3, 2026
- Method
- Bureau of the Treasury National Government debt report
- Update cycle
- monthly
- Why Bayanihan+ tracks it
- Provides public-finance context only; it is not presented as a direct cause of any Bayanihan+ program outcome.
Displayed without a debt-to-GDP ratio because the current official release and denominator periods must be aligned before publication.
Open official Bureau of the Treasury sourceNational need
Official statistics describe context.
The indicators above come from government statistical and administrative sources. They help Bayanihan+ identify where skills, access, safeguarding and opportunity pathways may matter. They do not prove that any Bayanihan+ activity caused a national change.
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