Western Visayas headline inflation or overall inflation slowed down further to 2.0 percent in January 2024, from 3.2 percent in December 2023. It is the lowest inflation rate since November 2019 when monthly inflation rate of 1.3 percent was recorded. The inflation rate in January 2023 was higher at 10.3 percent.
The First Semester of 2023 poverty incidence among population in Western Visayas, or the proportion of poor Filipinos in the region whose per capita income is not sufficient to meet their basic food and non-food needs, was estimated at 26.0 percent. This translates to 2.1 million Filipinos in the region who live below the poverty threshold estimated at PhP 14,206.00,
Western Visayas headline inflation or overall inflation continued its downtrend to 3.2 percent in December 2023, from 4.0 percent in in the previous month. It is the lowest inflation rate since January 2021 when monthly inflation rate of 2.8 percent was recorded. The inflation rate in December 2022 was higher at 10.5 percent. Regional average inflation from January to December 2023 is at 6.9 percent.
PSA – RSSO VI received and processed a total of 143,874 civil registry (CR) documents for the 1st Semester of 2023 as compared to the 1st Semester of 2022 with a total of 122,604. This was 17.35% increase on the number of registered civil registry documents for the year. Birth certificates comprise of 63.88% of the total documents, while 21.26% and 14.86% for the deaths and marriages, respectively.
