Area
(km2) |
300,000 |
Population
(2000) |
75,653,000 |
Official
name of the country |
The Republic of the Philippines |
Region |
East
Asia |
Type
of economy |
Low
middle income |
Gross
Domestic Product per capita (2000) |
US$988 |
Percentage
of population below the national poverty
line (1997) |
36.8 |
Human
Development Index, HDI (1999) |
0.749 |
HDI
rank out of 162 countries (1999) |
70 |
Duration
of compulsory education |
6
years |
School
life expectancy (1995) |
11.2
years |
Illiteracy
rate (2000) |
5.1 |
| Gross
Enrolment Rate (1998) |
• Pre-primary
|
30.73 |
• Primary
|
113.18 |
• Secondary
| 75.94 |
|
• Tertiary |
29.45 |
| Net
Enrolment Rate (1998) |
• Pre-primary
|
... |
• Primary
|
|
• Secondary
|
50.86 |
• Tertiary
|
... |
Sources:
United Nations Population Division and Statistics
Division (www.un.org);
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org);
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (
www.uis.unesco.org); United Nations Development
Programme (www.undp.org);
The World Bank (www.worldbank.org);
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (www.fao.org)
[.] not available.
Updated version, May 2003. |
