Where does the Philippines stand on Trust?
This page reads one capability from the published data and is recomputed with every release. It separates what the Philippines does, which makes the score, from what the country has, which sits beside the score, and places the country among the 10 countries at the nearest income. The text describes the data and recommends no policy.
What does the score rest on?
The Trust score is the equal-weight mean of the positions of five indicators on a 0 to 100 scale that every country sets together. Confidence measures the evidence behind the score and sits beside it as a second number.
The Trust score tracks GDP per capita at r = 0.35 across 123 countries.
Observed indicators
- Position on the scale48.3Peer median73.710 peers with a value
Time to enforce a contract
962 days
World Bank (ENF.CONT.DURS.DY), 2019
- Position on the scale83.5Peer median77.710 peers with a value
Bribery incidence
8.3 % of firms
World Bank (IC.FRM.BRIB.ZS), 2023
- Position on the scale73.1Peer median56.110 peers with a value
Government compliance with the courts
2.8 scale 0-4 (never to always)
V-Dem (v2jucomp_osp), 2025
- Position on the scale4.5Peer median19.27 peers with a value
Generalised interpersonal trust
5.3 % agreeing
Joint EVS/WVS (A165), 2022
- Position on the scale28.3Peer median24.07 peers with a value
Cooperation beyond the in-group
26.9 % expressing trust
Joint EVS/WVS (G007_34_B), 2022
No comparable source yet, so lowering confidence: trust in public institutions and court case clearance rate.
No condition is published beside Trust in this release, so the page shows only the indicators that make the score.
Where does the Philippines sit among its peers?
The peers are the 10 countries at the nearest income. Income is GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, in constant international dollars, for the latest year the World Bank publishes, and distance is measured on a log scale, where half and double are equally far. No country is picked by hand, and the set changes when the data does.
In this release peer income runs from US$ 9,495 to US$ 12,192, and the Philippines has US$ 10,748 (2025).
- Solid ring: usable or good evidence
- Broken ring: thin evidence, opening further as confidence falls
- The shaded band is the middle half of the set and the line inside it is the median.
- Jamaica: 84.9
- Namibia: 77.7
- Jordan: 60.2
- El Salvador: 55.3
- Uzbekistan: 52.0
- Philippines: 47.5
- Morocco: 45.7
- India: 45.3
- Lebanon: 41.2
- Bolivia: 39.7
- Iraq: 30.0
- JordanUS$ 10,794, 202560.2
- BoliviaUS$ 11,001, 202539.7
- LebanonUS$ 10,469, 202441.2
- NamibiaUS$ 10,242, 202577.7
- JamaicaUS$ 11,358, 202584.9
- IndiaUS$ 10,039, 202545.3
- UzbekistanUS$ 11,623, 202552.0
- El SalvadorUS$ 12,050, 202555.3
- MoroccoUS$ 9,495, 202545.7
- IraqUS$ 12,192, 202530.0
What separates the Philippines from its peers?
The Philippines scores 47.5 on Trust, below the median of the 10 scored peers, which is 48.9.
Indicators placed above the peer median on the scale: bribery incidence, government compliance with the courts, and cooperation beyond the in-group.
Indicators placed below the peer median on the scale: time to enforce a contract and generalised interpersonal trust.
Each sentence compares one position with one median. Why a difference exists, and what to do about it, lie outside this data.
What this reading does not show
- A national score is a coarse proxy. A capability forms in firms, cities, networks and groups below the level of the country, and a national average only describes the conditions they work in.
- Peers share income and nothing else. Size, production structure, region and political regime are outside the rule, and a set of 10 countries can change with any revision to GDP.
- An r reads the whole set at once and says nothing about one country alone. A correlation does not show a cause either.
- The known artefacts that bear on Trust, described on the limits page: artefact A3, artefact A6, artefact A12.
- And the ones every score in the benchmark carries: artefact A8, artefact A10.