Fast Facts About Poverty

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FAST FACTS ABOUT POVERTY

OVERSEAS

WORKERS: RecentDeployment and Remittance Trends

POVERTY INCIDENCE:

Philippines may miss goal of reducingpoverty by half

According to the National StatisticalCoordination Board (NSCB), povertyincidence in the country stood at 33per cent as of 2006. The NSCB said thecountry’s poverty incidence likely

stood at abouta third of thepopulation.Soliman saidthat accordingto the latestSocial Weather

Stations survey on self-ratedpoverty, 45 per cent of the

country’s population thought of themselves as poor last year. Self-rated poverty is usually higher thanthe actual poverty incidence reportedby the government. Still, it provides apicture of what the actual figure maybe.

POPULATION:Philippines placed 12th of the Most

Populous Country in the World This Year

According to estimates, the Philippinesis the 12th most populated nation inthe world.The CIA World Factbookestimates the population of the

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Phillippines at 99,900,177 as of July2010.

URBAN POOR:Philippines: Economic Recovery Unfelt

by Urban Poor — NGOs

More than half of its 92 millionpopulation resides in urban areas,mostly in Luzon, the Philippines largestisland group, and Manila, one of themost densely populated cities in theworld. Based on the country’spopulation census, Metro Manila’spopulation almost doubled from 5.9million in the 1980s to 11.5 million in2007. UPA estimates that Metro

Manila’s landless urban poor numberclose to five million, or roughly about8,000 families.

UNEMPLOYMENT:Growing unemployment in the

Philippines, also due to corruption andwaste

GRAFT AND

CORRUPTION:In 2010 the government will create 1.5million jobs - said Augusto Santos,director of the program for economicplanning - they will be concentrated inservice industries such as trade,finance and banking industry". Fornow, the NSO has registered about 944thousand new jobs in 2009. The goalpromised by the government in 2008was more than 1 million.

CHILD LABOR:Illegal mining breeds child labor,

prostitution in Diplahan

Street Children

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Street Children in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to the1998 report, entitled "Situation of the Youth in the Philippines," there areabout 1.5 million street children in the Philippines. Everyday, at least a streetchild is seen walking along the streets, looking for a place to stay.

DEBT BURDEN

Philippine debt hits P4.42-T as of end-Oct

URBAN POOR VS.RURAL POOR:

Almost three out of four (70percent) of the total number of poor reside in the rural areas.Almost five out of ten familiesliving in the rural areas (46.9percent) are poor based on thepoverty level. On the other hand,only two out of 10 families (19.9percent) living in the urban areasare poor.

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