Country profile · East Asia & Pacific · UMC
🇵🇭 Philippines
Upper middle income. Capital Manila. Lower-third GDP/cap (UMC · MID) - 42 series with wider survey lag risk.
- 115.8 million
- Population
- $461.7 billion
- GDP
- $3,985
- GDP / capita
- 69.9 years
- Life expectancy
Lower-third GDP/cap · MID
Philippines ranks 34th of 217 by total GDP and 154th for life expectancy - a upper middle income economy in East Asia & Pacific.
- #34
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $3,985
- GDP per capita
- #154
- Life-expectancy rank
- #14
- Population rank
Philippines lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#150 of 214) - UMC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Philippines vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$461,671,157,905 34th of 214 higher than 180 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
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Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Philippines on the global income map
Philippines (PHL) sits in the lower GDP/cap third - plotted with largest peers; bubble area = population.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
- Uganda: GDP per capita $1,078 (2024), life expectancy 68.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Philippines has a population of 115.8 million, making it the 14th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in East Asia & Pacific.
Its economy totals $461.7 billion - ranked 34th globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $3,985, placing it in the Upper middle income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 69.9 years (ranked 154th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Manila.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 5 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Philippines does report.
All indicators for Philippines
42 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Tuberculosis deaths at 31.0 per 100,000 sit well above the fleet midpoint (4.1) on Philippines; the cause list below is truncated to the steepest rates instead of repeating the full WHO menu. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Communicable & Maternal
Injuries & External Causes
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
⛏️ Mineral Production
Philippines is among the world's top producers of 2 minerals. View all minerals →
Source: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024. Data year 2023.
Compare Philippines with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Philippines
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Philippines (UMC · MID), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
UMC MID
Vanuatu · LMC
Vanuatu GDP/cap $3,960 is lower by $25 than Philippines; LE stamp LONG vs MID.
Eswatini · LMC
Eswatini GDP/cap $3,910 is lower by $76 than Philippines; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Morocco · LMC
Morocco GDP/cap $4,153 is higher by $168 than Philippines; LE stamp LONG vs MID.
Tunisia · LMC
Tunisia GDP/cap $4,188 is higher by $202 than Philippines; LE stamp LONG vs MID.
East Asia & Pacific WDI roster
Philippines stamps UMC · MID inside East Asia & Pacific - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#150)
Philippines ranks #150 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the UMC Atlas band.
What the data says about Philippines
Philippines is classified as an upper-middle-income economy, a tier where statistical capacity, and therefore data completeness, varies more widely than in high-income countries, so a missing or older data point on this profile usually reflects reporting lag rather than an absence of the underlying activity. With a large population spread across a correspondingly large territory, national-level figures for Philippines can mask enormous gaps between its wealthiest and poorest regions - more so than in a small, geographically compact economy. The trend across several years of an indicator usually tells a more useful story than any single year's value.
Philippines lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#150 of 214) - UMC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Philippines's 115.8 million people and $461.7 billion GDP (34th) yield $3,985 per person in the lower GDP/cap third. Life expectancy 69.9 years (154th, MID) and survey lag both matter when reading single-year cells. 42 official points sit in the tables.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Vanuatu at $3,960 (Δ $25). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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