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More Filipinos Became Poorer in 2021, PSA Says

Around 3.5 million families were considered poor in 2021.

The Philippines' pandemic-driven woes continue, trickling down to our national poverty incidence rate. In the 2021 Full Year Official Poverty Statistics of the Philippines report released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Monday August 15, the number of poor Filipinos in the ...