THE number of Filipinos who say they are poor and hungry dropped in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest survey conducted by the independent pollster OCTA Research.
In its Tugon ng Masa survey conducted from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, 2024, 43 percent of Filipinos, equivalent to around 11.3 million families, self-identified as poor in the third quarter of 2024, a decline of five percentage points, or 1.4 million families, from the previous quarter where 48 percent said they are poor.Self-rated poverty decreased by 7 percentage points in Balance Luzon, from 37 percent to 30 percent, as well as in Mindanao by 17 percentage points from 77 percent to 60 percent.
Meanwhile, only 11 percent of Filipino families claim that they experienced involuntary hunger, or going without anything to eat at least once in the last three months prior to the survey, a decrease of 5 percentage points from the 16 percent in the previous quarter.
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