In 2022, the World Bank (WB) reported the country's learning poverty at 91 percent, considered to be one of the highest rates among countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Learning poverty rate refers to the number of 10-year-old pupils who cannot read and understand age-appropriate texts or written materials. A report also noted that this rate is higher than the previous year's learning poverty statistics, at 90 percent. A year later, in 2023, the Philippines maintained this rate, with WB reporting that the country is still among eight countries that registered a learning poverty rate higher than two-thirds, or 67 percent after the country restored face-to-face classes in November 2022.

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