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Suicide Rate: ranked 90 (2005 est.) Happy Planet Index 2012: ranked 24 out of 111. Where-to-be-born Index 2005: (Economist Intelligence Unit): ranked 63 out of 80. Education Index 2008: ranked 66. Global Gender Gap Report 2014: (World Economic Forum): ranked 8 out of 136. Legatum Prosperity Index 2014: ranked 67 out of 142 [13]
Agricultural water management in the Philippines is primarily focused on irrigation. The country has 3.126 million hectares of irrigable land, 50% (1.567 million hectares) of which already has irrigation facilities. 50% of irrigated areas are developed and operated by the government through the National Irrigation System (NIS). 36% is developed by the government and operated by irrigators ...
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a method of quantifying and numerically marking the environmental performance of a state's policies. This index was developed from the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, first published in 2002, and designed to supplement the environmental targets set forth in the United Nations Millennium ...
List of countries by access to clean water. Appearance. Share of the population without access to an improved water source, 2020. Global access to clean water is a significant global challenge that affects the health, well-being, and development of people worldwide. While progress has been made in recent years, millions of people still lack ...
This is a list of regions and provinces of the Philippines by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2019. [1] The HDI is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
This list contains the top 500 cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement as documented by the World Health Organization covering the period from 2008 to 2017. The 2018 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 2700 towns and cities in 91 countries.
Only one third of Philippine river systems are considered suitable for public water supply. [31] It is estimated that in 2025, water availability will be marginal in most major cities and in 8 of the 19 major river basins. [32] Besides severe health concerns, water pollution also leads to problems in the fishing and tourism industries. [33]
Indicator 6.3.2: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality The current status for Indicator 6.3.2 is that: "Preliminary estimates from 79 mostly high- and higher-middle income countries in 2019 suggest that, in about one quarter of the countries, less than half of all household wastewater flows were treated safely."