PH SDG score: Good in curbing poverty, teenage smoking

The Philippines has performed well in curbing poverty and teenage tobacco use as part of its Sustainable Development Goals targets. | GabrielLaluINQ

Fewer teens using tobacco

Both indicators — reducing poverty and teenage tobacco use — are included in 11 out of 155 indicators and seven out of 97 targets that are achievable by 2030. “We saw an improvement in 2010. It went down in 2011, and from 2013, it has performed erratically […] But because of the pandemic in 2020, you can see here a very big drop, the annual growth rate of GDP per capita for the Philippines was at minus 10.8 percent, but we were able to recover in 2021, at 4.3 percent,” she added.

The PSA also showed that the country regressed in Target 8.6, which seeks to limit the number of Filipinos aged 15 to 24 years old not in education, employment, or training. The SDG target for 2030 is to bring this down to 10.0% from the current 30.0%.Sen. Pia Cayetano, the committee chair, welcomed the data on reducing poverty, saying in a mix of English and Filipino: “Of course, that’s good. That to me is a major indicator, this poverty level. We are on track in that one.

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