it has an age structure in 2010 that is not a substantially different from those of past decades. The United Nations forecasts that in 2030, the median age in the Philippines will reach 29 years ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ population ... that the fertility rate has an impact on the country’s age structure. “The dominant now is the working-age group population of 15 ...

In September 2020, the Supreme Court of the Philippines acquitted a man of child ... That, in turn, is a factor of the country’s age of consent, which, for the past 90 years has been 12 ...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and ...

But those reforms did not include raising the age of consent, which has remained at 12 since it was enshrined in a penal code that was first enacted in the Philippines in 1930. That could be set ...

Manila teenager Rose Alvarez was 13 when she started having sex with a man who was more than twice her age. That would be statutory rape in most countries, but not in the Philippines. The Catholic ...

MANILA, the Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to ...

he Philippines has raised the age of sexual consent to 16 after amending a near century-old law, a move child rights activists said Monday would help protect youngsters from rape and abuse.

[Courtesy of Euronews] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect ...