NSCB - Philippine Poverty Statistics - Ranking of Provinces Based on Poverty Incidence Among Families: 2000, 2003 and 2006

Table 24.

Ranking of Provinces Based on Poverty Incidence Among Families:
2000, 2003 and 2006
(Ranking of provinces excludes Districts of NCR, Isabela City and Cotabato City)

Region/ Province	Poverty Incidence Among Families (%)
	Estimates (%)			Coefficient of Variation			Rank
	2000	2003	2006	2000	2003	2006	2000	2003	2006

PHILIPPINES	27.5	24.4	26.9	1.6	1.3	1.3

Tawi-tawi	52.4	34.6	78.9	10.2	20.0	9.0	8	30	1
Zamboanga del Norte	47.0	64.6	63.0	12.0	6.5	8.1	17	1	2
Maguindanao	59.3	60.4	62.0	7.0	7.0	6.1	2	2	3
Apayao	26.5	16.8	57.5	15.9	30.3	16.6	59	67	4
Surigao Del Norte	42.6	54.5	53.2	11.0	8.1	6.8	23	4	5
Lanao del Sur	54.7	37.6	52.5	8.3	13.9	12.6	5	24	6
Northern Samar	39.8	33.8	52.2	12.3	17.7	16.0	31	37	7
Masbate	61.3	55.9	51.0	5.8	5.7	6.5	1	3	8
Abra	47.6	41.0	50.1	6.2	13.0	8.0	16	18	9
Misamis Occidental	46.8	48.1	48.8	7.8	11.7	9.6	18	7	10
Agusan del Sur	52.3	52.8	48.7	10.4	8.8	6.0	9	5	11
Oriental Mindoro	39.8	37.0	47.1	18.9	7.8	7.0	32	28	12
Occidental Mindoro	38.1	40.9	46.5	11.5	14.8	15.6	36	19	13
Sulu	58.9	45.1	46.5	9.8	11.3	10.7	3	13	14
Kalinga	39.3	46.1	45.8	15.0	11.7	7.8	34	12	15
Surigao Del Sur	38.4	48.6	45.4	8.7	7.2	8.9	35	6	16
Mt. Province	48.4	46.7	45.0	13.3	13.0	16.4	15	8	17
Saranggani	48.4	44.4	44.8	22.1	8.7	10.0	14	14	18
Lanao del Norte	49.3	46.5	44.1	6.7	7.9	11.5	12	10	19
Negros Oriental	29.7	37.1	43.7	14.7	9.2	8.4	53	27	20
Sorsogon	41.4	33.7	43.5	7.3	10.3	5.4	26	38	21
Antique	35.1	43.4	43.0	8.1	10.6	14.8	38	15	22
Eastern Samar	45.9	33.9	42.7	7.1	19.3	18.3	19	36	23
Aklan	36.3	33.5	42.6	15.2	10.8	4.0	37	40	24
Romblon	52.2	37.5	41.9	10.5	10.6	7.8	10	25	25
Camarines Sur	40.8	40.1	41.2	9.3	7.0	5.6	29	21	26
Palawan	24.7	43.1	40.8	14.5	8.4	9.9	62	16	27
Davao Oriental	33.7	37.2	40.8	13.8	18.2	12.6	42	26	28
Marinduque	42.7	38.3	40.8	8.2	11.6	13.2	22	23	29
Sultan Kudarat	48.8	41.5	40.7	10.3	14.5	10.4	13	17	30
Leyte	34.9	34.6	40.5	11.9	6.4	7.3	39	31	31
Western Samar	45.5	38.7	40.2	9.5	9.2	11.3	20	22	32
Compostela Valley	a	34.4	39.8	a	17.1	9.7	a	35	33
Camiguin	54.2	34.5	39.3	10.5	21.7	8.2	6	32	34
Bohol	50.2	29.2	38.8	9.4	12.8	9.0	11	50	35
Quezon	32.9	32.8	38.4	14.0	11.9	7.6	46	42	36
Camarines Norte	52.7	46.1	38.4	10.9	14.4	18.8	7	11	37
Albay	40.3	34.4	37.8	11.5	8.1	8.4	30	33	38
Davao del Norteb	39.5	30.3	37.7	12.2	7.8	10.4	33	49	39
Catanduanes*	43.9	31.8	37.3	10.9	10.3	22.1	21	45	40
Guimaras	22.6	32.7	35.2	18.7	13.2	13.3	64	43	41
Agusan del Norte	40.9	33.2	35.2	7.0	7.9	8.5	27	41	42
Zamboanga Sibugay	c	40.7	34.0	c	13.9	14.8	c	20	43
Negros Occidental	41.6	31.4	33.4	6.5	6.0	6.6	25	46	44
Nueva Ecija	27.6	22.2	32.0	9.3	12.1	7.6	57	63	45
Basilan*d	31.5	33.5	31.7	13.1	5.8	30.7	47	39	46
Aurora*	26.9	29.2	31.6	9.8	59.0	47.1	58	51	47
Misamis Oriental	29.3	28.5	31.5	9.3	6.7	7.0	54	52	48
Biliran*	33.3	46.5	31.4	18.3	13.4	23.7	44	9	49
Ifugao	55.7	28.1	30.9	8.0	21.9	19.0	4	53	50
South Cotabato	34.7	26.4	30.7	12.2	7.4	6.6	41	54	51
Bukidnon	33.4	36.9	29.6	11.3	13.9	11.2	43	29	52
Zamboanga del Sure	34.9	34.4	29.0	9.1	7.1	8.9	40	34	53
Southern Leyte	26.3	31.9	29.0	12.1	11.7	13.7	60	44	54
North Cotabato	41.6	26.1	27.7	9.5	11.9	12.3	24	55	55
Pangasinan	30.8	25.8	27.6	7.4	7.6	6.3	49	56	56
La Union	33.2	24.6	27.6	14.0	12.7	17.6	45	57	57
Ilocos Sur	30.4	22.8	27.2	9.4	19.0	6.4	50	62	58
Batangas	20.7	24.5	25.6	11.0	5.6	8.1	66	58	59
Isabela	30.2	23.9	24.4	11.1	7.1	8.5	51	61	60
Capiz	40.8	21.6	24.3	9.6	13.3	9.3	28	64	61
Iloilo	29.7	31.1	24.1	7.8	9.2	10.1	52	47	62
Cebu	26.2	17.1	23.5	8.7	8.3	5.3	61	66	63
Davao del Sur	18.3	24.2	23.0	13.3	8.2	8.3	67	59	64
Zambales	23.7	13.4	22.6	10.6	17.4	18.0	63	70	65
Siquijor*	28.6	30.9	22.3	15.9	13.3	24.9	55	48	66
Tarlac	27.6	14.8	22.1	18.5	11.9	11.5	56	69	67
Cagayan	21.5	16.5	19.3	14.6	11.1	13.8	65	68	68
Ilocos Norte*	18.2	19.6	17.1	18.7	19.4	27.8	68	65	69
Quirino*	31.4	24.1	15.9	16.7	31.2	30.3	48	60	70
Nueva Vizcaya*	16.5	9.2	12.7	28.8	27.4	24.3	69	74	71
Laguna	8.1	8.4	10.6	14.4	14.6	10.4	75	77	72
Bulacan	5.4	8.5	10.0	15.7	14.7	11.6	77	76	73
Pampanga	14.4	10.5	8.3	13.2	13.8	12.2	70	72	74
Benguet	13.9	11.0	8.2	15.5	19.9	16.3	71	71	75
Cavite	10.2	8.6	7.8	16.0	15.8	14.1	73	75	76
Bataan*	9.9	10.2	6.8	16.8	22.2	33.0	74	73	77
Rizal	5.6	3.4	6.4	21.3	19.0	14.6	76	79	78
Batanes	10.4	6.3	-	36.5	f	f	72	78	79

a - No separate estimate yet; still included in Davao del Norte
b - 2000 estimates include Compostela Valley
c - No separate estimate yet; still included in Zamboanga del Sur.
d - 2000 estimates include Isabela City
e - 2000 estimates still include Zamboanga Sibugay
f - No CVs were computed since only one sample household was classified as poor in 2003 and none in 2006.

Notes:

1. Zamboanga Sibugay (Region IX) and Compostela Valley (Region XI) are new provinces created under EO 36 and EO 103.
2. Isabela City (Region IX) and Cotabato City (Region XII) have been separated from their respective mother provinces - Basilan and Maguindanao (both ARMM) under the present regional configuration.

* Coefficient of Variation (CV) of 2006 poverty incidence is greater than 20%


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