Philippines

Population Statistics

100,998,376

Total Population

15,149,756

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

12
may

Philippine Senate 2025

2025

15 April 2008

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines (1987)

Updated: June 2015

Article V, section 1 states:

Suffrage may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines not otherwise disqualified by law, who are at least eighteen years of age…No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines (1987)