Freedom of expression during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the freedom of expression changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	PFP Bongbong Marcos	30 Jun 2022 – now	+5.5 points 2021 → 2025	+1.4 points/yr
2	LP Benigno Aquino III	30 Jun 2010 – 30 Jun 2016	+4.1 points 2009 → 2015	+0.7 points/yr
3	Lakas Fidel Ramos	30 Jun 1992 – 30 Jun 1998	−0.1 points 1991 → 1997	0.0 points/yr
4	LAMMP Joseph Estrada	30 Jun 1998 – 20 Jan 2001	−2.0 points 1997 → 2000	−0.7 points/yr
5	Lakas Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	20 Jan 2001 – 30 Jun 2010	−3.9 points 2000 → 2009	−0.4 points/yr
6	Rodrigo Duterte	30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jun 2022	−25.9 points 2015 → 2021	−4.3 points/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, V-Dem's 0 to 1 index times 100 · V-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100 · Philippines data · as of Oct 2026.