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Results of the 2018 Full-Year Official Poverty Statistics have shown that more than half or 61.7 percent of women in BARMM belong to poor families in 2018. This is equivalent to 1,255.2 thousand women in the region whose income is less than the annual per capita poverty threshold of... read more
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an indicator of the changes in the average retail prices of fixed basket of goods and services commonly purchased by households relative to a base year. BARMM recorded a CPI of 130.5 in May 2020. The region’s CPI is the highest in the entire country... read more
About 68.2 percent of the children or individuals below 18 years old in BARMM belong to poor families in 2018. This translates to 1,293.4 thousand children who belong to a family with per capita income that is less than the per capita poverty threshold of PhP27,556 during this period.... read more
Less than half or 41.06 percent of the total population 15 years old and over in BARMM were in the labor force in April 2020. The level of labor force participation of the working-age population in BARMM decreased by 5.69 percentage points from the previous estimate in April 2019 which... read more
The total livestock production in BARMM increased by 2.53 percent in the first quarter of 2020, from 7,466 metric tons (MT) in the first quarter of 2019 to 7,655 MT. Production of Carabao and Cattle decreased by corresponding growth rates of 0.70 percent and 1.57 percent. On the other... read more