This is an interesting but confusing article. One of the negative score areas is tolerance for immigrants and discrimination and violence against minorities. Some of the issues that get positive scores is "early marriage" and I am not sure what that is or why it positive, unless it could the fact that most young couples just skip the church wedding (so the statistics say the population does not marry young) and move right on to the maternity ward.

"The Philippines dropped in the worldwide ranking in terms of social progress, according to a global survey conducted by a Washington-based think tank........ The top three countries in the Social Progress Index 2015 are Norway, Sweden and Switzerland with closely grouped scores between 88.36 and 87.97, the report said."

"Phl dips in social progress rankings - Yahoo News Philippines