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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17685218929811768521889392.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"></span></span></span></div><p>A resident uses plastic sacks and scrap wood as he strengthens a shanty to help make it withstand the storms in Baseco Community in Tondo Manila on June 11, 2021. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News </p><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — The number of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger slightly decreased in November, according to a Social Weather Survey released Thursday. </p><div><br/></div><p>The Nov. 24-30 poll found that 20.1 percent of Filipino families experienced being hungry and having nothing to eat at least once in the past three months. </p><p>“This is 1.9 points down from 22.0 percent in September 2025, following an increase from 16.1 percent in June 2025,” SWS noted. </p><p>“The resulting 2025 average of 20.2 percent was the same as in 2024, and 0.9 points below the record-high 21.1 percent average of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic,” it added. </p><p>As of November 2025, involuntary hunger was highest in Mindanao at 26.7 percent, followed by Metro Manila and the Visayas, both at 20.3 percent, and the rest of Luzon at 16.7 percent. </p><p>The same survey found 51 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as “mahirap” or poor. Twelve percent rated themselves as “borderline” and 37 percent said they were not poor. </p><p>The survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide. It had a sampling error margin of ±3 percent for national percentages.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><iframe width="729" height="410" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LzHRfxYuVIQ" title="SWS breaks down reasons for rising hunger in Mindanao, Visayas | DZMM TeleRadyo" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>

<p>The number of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger slightly decreased in November, according to a Social Weather Survey released Thursday.</p>

The number of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger slightly decreased in November, according to a Social Weather Survey released Thursday.

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Involuntary hunger eases slightly in November 2025 — SWS

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Published January 16, 2026 08:08 AM PHT

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