Income Classes Philippines 2018
P10 957 to p21 914 monthly income.
Income classes philippines 2018. Read more about annual family income is estimated at php 313 thousand on average in 2018. Profile and determinants of the middle income class in the philippines discussion papers dp 2018 20 philippine institute for development studies handle. Santos and jana flor v. These figures translate to an average annual savings of php 75 thousand table 1.
Discussion paper series no. Low income but not poor. The complete data of can be found in the discussion paper series no. As of 2018 the pids identified social classes according to the following income brackets.
By income class ic. Albert angelo gabrielle f. Families in the philippines are identified as rich or poor depending on their pooled monthly income pids president celia reyes said during a senate budget hearing. The middle class plays within the gap between the poor and the rich and based on these numbers.
Vizmanos jana flor v 2018. In comparison their expenditure for the same year was php 239 thousand on average. This records an increase from the previous number of 6 068 162 000 000 php th for dec 2015. In the philippines according to the most recent research done by national statistical coordination board now known as the philippine statistics authority only 3 out of 20 households belong to the middle class population with two thirds of them residing in urban areas.
Middle income class nearly three fifths 58 4 to low income and the remaining 1 4 to high income. Lower middle income between two and four times the poverty line. Profile and determinants of the middle income class in the philippines authored by jose ramon g. Such shares of the income classes hardly changed since 2006 figure 1.
2018 20 december 2018 profile and determinants of the middle income class in the philippines the pids discussion paper series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. Annual data is updated yearly averaging 2 721 676 998 852 php th from dec 1991 to 2018 with 10 observations. Place of residence urban. Albert jose ramon g.
Written by marc adrian. By income class ic. According to a 2018 study by the philippine institute for development studies pids 40 of the country s population belong to the middle income class while majority or 58 belong to the lower income class. Below p10 957 monthly income.
Santos angelo gabrielle f. Annual data was reported at 7 754 485 767 339 php th in dec 2018. In terms of households less than half 45 1 were middle income in 2015 while a bigger proportion 52 8 belonged to low income class.