SWS: 2.9 million Filipino families still hungry in Q3

Families go about with their day as they extend their space in front of their shanties along a road in Delpan, Tondo, Manila on August 21, 2022.

Miguel De Guzman

MANILA, Philippines — A new poll showed that 11.3% of Filipino families or an estimated 2.9 million experienced “involuntary hunger” moving into the third quarter of 2022.

The survey, the first of its kind conducted under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., showed that people who reported that their family experienced hungerand did not have anything to eat at least once in the past three months barely moved from the last poll done in June.

The SWS said the 11.3% hunger rate is the sum of 9.1% who experienced “moderate hunger” — or those who experienced hunger “only once” or “a few times” — and 2.2% who experienced “severe hunger” — or those who experienced it “often” or “always.”

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