Numbers about the Philippines, made legible. Independent reporting on the economy and the environment, where every chart names its source and every method is published.
Philippine tourism recovery, by the numbers
International arrivals have rebounded to 93% of pre-pandemic levels, but average spending per visitor remains 40% below 2019. Recovery is uneven: Boracay and Palawan lead, while southern destinations lag.
El Nido passed its 2025 population projection in 2020 → 
Population growth, region by region → 
The archipelago, drawn in rivers → Did rice tariffication lower retail prices? A regional analysis, 2019–2026
Tariffication reduced well-milled rice prices by 8–12% in Metro Manila and Central Luzon, but the effect was smaller and slower in Visayas and Mindanao.
Republic Act 11203 replaced quantitative limits on rice imports with tariffs in 2019. This paper estimates how much of the change reached retail prices of regular- and well-milled rice across Philippine regions, using monthly price surveys from 2019 to 2026.
P < 0.05 and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves → Fragile Paradises → Tourism and the Pacific waste crisis. 
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