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Philippines

East Asia & Pacific · Lower middle income

Two forces shape how many students a country sends abroad: the supply of domestic education (quality and capacity at home) and the demand drivers (who wants to leave, and who can afford to). The headline index for each axis is the mean percentile — versus every country that year — of a fixed core basket; other indicators are shown as context.

Supply — domestic education

Index = Education Index + tertiary enrolment. Weak supply itself drives students abroad.

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index · 2022
  • Education Index2022
    0.65440
    40th pctile

    UNDP education sub-index (schooling years).

  • Tertiary Enrolment Ratio2022
    38.4%33
    33th pctile

    Tertiary gross enrolment ratio — domestic capacity.

  • PISA — Mathematicscontext2018
    3532
    2th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — mathematics. · region avg 487

  • PISA — Sciencecontext2018
    3572
    2th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — science. · region avg 489

  • PISA — Readingcontext2018
    3401
    1th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — reading. · region avg 472

Demand — drivers to study abroad

Index = GDP per capita + outbound mobility + population (market scale).

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index · 2023
  • Population (market scale)2023
    114.9M94
    94th pctile

    Total population — scale of the student market.

  • GDP per Capita (PPP)2023
    $10,98633
    33th pctile

    GDP per capita, PPP — ability to pay.

  • Outbound Mobility Ratio2023
    0.9%7
    7th pctile

    Tertiary students studying abroad, as a share of enrolment.

The headline index uses the core basket only, so it stays comparable across countries and matches the trend chart and world map below. PISA (≈80 countries, triennial) is shown as context, not in the index.

Supply & demand over time

2001–2023

Each axis indexed 0–100 by its position relative to the world that year, so a rising line means Philippines is climbing the global ranks. A widening gap between demand (above) and supply (below) signals growing pressure to study abroad.

Supply indexDemand index0255075100200520102015202020233645

Index basket (held constant for comparability): supply = Education Index + tertiary enrolment ratio; demand = GDP per capita (PPP) + outbound mobility ratio + population.

Coverage

8/8 indicators present. Full coverage across all eight indicators.

Revealed Demand — Australia

Philippines students in Australia

The supply/demand model above is global. Here is the realised outcome in one destination — actual enrolments of Philippines students in Australia, the same series shown in International Education, filtered to this country.

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Enrolments by year — year-to-date path, last six years

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Current year in vermillion; prior years in grey. Source: Australian Department of Education.

By Sector

 

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Current year Previous year · % = year-on-year change

By State & Territory

 

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Current year Previous year · % = year-on-year change