Philippine Institute for Development Studies(PIDS)

Dear eFOI user,

Thank you for your requestMarch 05, 2025d Feb. 28, 2025, made under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

We have received your request on Percentage of household in each social classes,March 05, 2025d March 05, 2025. We will respond and process your request on or before March 21, 2025, in compliance with the Executive Order’s implementing rules and regulations.

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Respectfully,

FOI Officer

Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Dear eFOI user,

Thank you for your request dated Feb. 28, 2025, made under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You requested the following:

· Latest data on percentage of household number in each social classes (e g. poor, low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, high income, rich)

Response to your request

Your FOI has been approved. Below is the data on percentage of the population in each income classes based on the 2021 FIES.

Table 1. Percentage population per income class

Income Group

Percentage of Population

Poor

17.8

Low income but not poor

41.0

Lower middle income

28.1

Middle-middle income

9.2

Upper middle income

3.0

High income but not rich

0.7

Rich

0.3

Total

100.0

Source: Family Income and Expenditures Survey (FIES) 2021

You may also check the most relevant and latest PIDS study related to your data request through the link below:

https://www.pids.gov.ph/publication/discussion-papers/wealth-creation-for-expanding-the-middle-class-in-the-philippines

Please feel free to check other PIDS publications that are available on our website (https://www.pids.gov.ph/publications). You may want to visit the Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P) website (https://serp-p.pids.gov.ph/) to access research papers produced not only by PIDS, but also by our partner academic and research institutions.

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Novie Salcedo

FOI Officer

Philippine Institute for Development Studies