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AN ESTIMATED 20 percent of Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger, being hungry and having nothing to eat at least once in the past three months, according to the latest national survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations .In a released report on Friday, June 27, 2025, while the April 23–28, 2025 survey shows a slight increase from 19.1 percent recorded earlier in April, the figure remains significantly lower than the 27.2 percent registered in March.
Hunger among self-rated poor families slightly increased from 24.4 percent to 25.9 percent, while it also went up among non-poor families from 13.4 percent to 14.1 percent. Meanwhile, self-rated food-poor households reported a higher hunger incidence at 28.4 percent compared to 14.1 percent among those not considering themselves food-poor.SWS noted that hunger trends vary each quarter and often remain consistently higher among economically disadvantaged groups.
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