Education and growing up
Compare senior high tracks, vocational training and college.
COUNTRY LIFE / PHL
If you were born in the Philippines
A Philippine life through school, work and household choices.
01 / QUESTION
What could life be like if you were born in the Philippines?
Choose learning and work while balancing family time and daily expenses.
Philippines / 1950–2025
Choices along the way
Consider local work, commuting costs and take-home income. · Share household schedules and childcare.
02 / START
Set your birth
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
03 / GENERATIONS
A country across generations
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
2016Sources and scope
In 2016, the first Grade 11 cohort began senior high school under the K–12 reform established by the Senate-published education law.
Sources describe the social setting for the relevant era; choices and the simulation shape each person’s work, family and outcome.
04 / EVERYDAY LIFE
Choices along the way
Work and careers
Consider local work, commuting costs and take-home income.
Family and everyday life
Share household schedules and childcare.
Life across generations
Compare cohorts across senior high rollout in 2016 and health reform in 2019.
05 / SOURCES
Sources and scope
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
Enhanced Basic Education Act 2013 (RA 10533)
Original source ↗Universal Health Care Act 2019 (RA 11223)
Original source ↗2020 Census Population
Original source ↗2020 Census Housing
Original source ↗06 / LIFE ARCHIVE
Lives that began here
Only completed simulation records voluntarily made public by players appear here.
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07 / NEXT COUNTRY
Choose a birthplace. Discover a different life.
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