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SEA-11 · 2026
Philippines & Malaysia · 2024
Debt: 2026 projections. Interest: 2024 observations for the PH–MY pair. “Borrows less” refers to gross debt as a share of GDP. Coverage & comparability ↗
ASEAN in Data (2026). The Philippines borrows less than Malaysia — and still spends a larger share of revenue on interest. /insights/philippines-debt-in-perspective
Remittances connect overseas work to economies at home. The Philippines stands out among its major peers.
Philippines and selected peers · 2020–2025 · latest available
Manufacturing’s economic footprint differs across Southeast Asia. Export shares tell a different story.
Philippines and selected peers · 2025
A regional scoreboard brings fiscal differences into view. Gross debt alone cannot rank financial resilience.
Philippines and selected peers · 2026
Explore the ASEAN aggregate and selected recipient breakdowns, with reporting bases and coverage gaps in view.
Explore WGI, press freedom and INFORM in separate regional panels.
Visitor arrivals, regional recovery context and the gaps in tourism receipts.
Explore national poverty, international PPP thresholds and Gini with survey years and welfare definitions in view.
Explore life expectancy, mortality, immunisation and health services with observation years and peer comparisons in view.
Compare logistics performance, customs, infrastructure and timeliness alongside container and air freight volumes.
Explore internet use, a fixed Ookla snapshot and Findex measures in separate regional panels.
Explore merchandise partner shares and Philippine export–import differences within a consistent WITS vintage.
Explore schooling, literacy, PISA, human capital and tertiary enrolment with their own observation years.
Compare participation, employment and youth unemployment within one modelled ILO/WDI vintage.
Explore population scale, signed growth, urbanisation, fertility and dependency with their own observation years.
Energy access, import dependence, power mix, and critical minerals.
Disaster impacts, hazard exposure, and climate vulnerability across the SEA-11.
Labour participation, political representation, and composite gender indices across the SEA-11.
Earnings, minimum wages, wage employment, and price levels across the SEA-11.
Nominal GDP, real growth, inflation, and PPP scale across the SEA-11.
Tax and revenue as a share of GDP, with composition where citeable, across the SEA-11.
Credit depth, physical access points, and asset quality across the SEA-11.
Current account, reserves, and external debt across the SEA-11.
Benefit coverage, pensions, and social-protection reach and adequacy across the SEA-11.
UN EGDI, online services, infrastructure, human capital, and e-participation across the SEA-11.
Economic freedom, FDI restrictiveness, and firm-reported regulation costs across the SEA-11.
Farm value added, employment, cereal yields, and food-security measures across the SEA-11.
Consumer inflation and policy rates across the SEA-11.
Services export scale, ICT and travel shares, and services trade openness across the SEA-11.
FDI by sector and source amounts for ASEAN, companion to the source-map topic.
We make Southeast Asia’s economies, people, governance and risks easier to read. Every chart carries a source, observation year and data vintage. When a value is missing, we show the gap.
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