The Philippines placed last among its East and Southeast Asia peers after placing 70th out of 102 countries in the 2022 edition of online learning platform Coursera’s Global Skills Report, which ranked skills and proficiency of learners in the areas of business, technology, and data science. This was lower than the 69th out of 108 countries in the previous edition of the report. The Philippines’ data science proficiency percentile rank dipped to 21% from 44% last year. Its business proficiency improved to 62% from 57%, while it steadied at 29% percentile rank in technology proficiency.
