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Hunger among families drops to 16.1% in June
The Freeman
|August 17, 2025
Fewer Filipino families reported experiencing involuntary hunger in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.
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The nationwide poll, conducted from June 25 to 29, found that 16.1% of families or about 4.6 million households went hungry and had nothing to eat at least once in the past three months. This is 3.9 points lower than the 20% recorded from April 23 to 28.
SWS noted that hunger incidence was at 27.2% in March 2025 before falling to 19.1% in the April 11 to 15 survey.
“The 2025 average of 19.9% was 0.3 points lower than the 2024 average of 20.2%, and 1.2 points lower than the record-high 21.1% average of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the survey showed.
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