Php 11,103 needed to stay out of poverty
For the first half of 2021, a family of five in Davao Region needed at least Php 11,103 to be able to meet both basic food and non-food needs in a month. This is an increase of 4.8 percent from the poverty threshold posted in the same period in 2018, which was estimated at Php 10,598. At the national level, the monthly threshold was around at Php 12,082, on the average, which is 979 pesos higher than the region’s estimated threshold.