The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has issued more than 50 million national IDs as of the first week of February, the agency said.
Of the total national IDs issued, 30,558,332 were physical IDs.
The remaining 19.7 million were issued as electronic IDs, the PSA said.
The PSA in October 2022 launched downloadable versions of the national ID, named ePhilID, which allows registered persons to download PDF versions of their IDs.
More than 440,000 ePhilIDs have been downloaded as of Feb. 2, the PSA said.
The PSA aims to eliminate its current national ID backlog by the first quarter of 2023.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has said the national ID would play a huge part in his “digital transformation” goal for the government. John Ezekiel J. Hirro