“In the first quarter of 2023, the Philippines' economy registered a 6.4% growth in gross domestic product, which is within the target of 6% to 7% for the year.”
What Vera Files found
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) national statistician Claire Dennis Mapa reported on May 11 that the 6.4% GDP growth in the first quarter of 2023 was “the lowest growth registered after seven quarters when the country started to recover from the pandemic in the second quarter of 2021.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Philippine president) made this claim around 24 July 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 26 July 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/live/cT_6tqTXAXA?feature=share&t=2400
- pco.gov.phhttps://pco.gov.ph/presidential-speech/2nd-state-of-the-nation-address-of-his-excellency-…
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