Philippines Index for February 2004
(Money amounts listed in Philippine Pesos (P10) and US Dollars ($10)
- Exchange rate, Philippine Peso to US Dollar, February 8, 2004: 55.90 / 1
- Daily salary, hotel maids at McSherry Pension House, Cebu City: P106 ($1.89)
- Daily salary, shopgirls at Golden Crust Bakeshop, Cebu City: P60 ($1.07)
- Annual Salary, shopgirls at Golden Crust Bakeshop, Cebu City: P23,030 ($412)
- Cost of small hamburger meal at Jollibee fastfood restaurant, Cebu City: P40 ($.71)
- Philippine poverty threshold, 2002: P11,906 ($212)
- Percentage of Philippine households living below poverty threshold: 28.4%
- Percentage of households in Cebu Province with electricity: 60%
- Percentage of households in Cebu Province with water faucet inside house: 21%
- Percentage of households in Cebu Province that have garbage collected by truck: 22%
- Percentage of households in Cebu Province that burn household garbage: 54%
- Percentage of households in Cebu Province that bury garbage in individual pit: 11%
- US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to Philippines, 2002: $19 million.
- US Supplemental FMF for CT Modules to Philippines, 2002: $30 million
- US Supplemental FMF for Engineering Spares to Philippines, 2002: $25 million
- US International Military Education & Training Fund to Philippines, 2002: $2.40 million
- US Regional Counter-Terrorism Program to Philippines, 2002: $1.50 million
- US Direct Excess Defense Articles Transfers to Philippines, 2002: $37.5 million
- US Equipment/transportation from existing US military inventories to Philippines, 2002: $10 million
- Total US military aid to Philippines, 2002: $114.46 million
- Total US economic development aid to Philippines, 2002: $60 million
(Source for above figures: US Embassy, Manila: http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwfjusm.pdf.)
- Number of US military bases around the world: 725
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