{
  "id": "ph-srrv-active-book",
  "title": "SRRV active book (holders on the book)",
  "metric": "Active Special Resident Retiree's Visa holders",
  "unit": "holders",
  "kind": "count",
  "volatility": "annual",
  "direction_note": "a growing book is the PRA's stated ambition; it is a raw count and NOT a Western-retiree count (~85% Asian)",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Philippine Retirement Authority, reported via TTG Asia and ACCRALAW (Oct 2025)",
    "url": "https://www.ttgasia.com/2025/10/30/foreign-retirees-drawn-to-philippines-as-retiree-visa-approvals-near-4000/"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"SRRV active book (holders on the book)\" (Active Special Resident Retiree's Visa holders). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-srrv-active-book.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-srrv-active-book.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-srrv-active-book.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-05-30",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2025-07",
      "value": 60000,
      "source": {
        "label": "PRA reported via ACCRALAW (Oct 2025) and TTG Asia (Oct 2025) (how-many-western-retirees-in-southeast-asia-the-real-number claim rn4)",
        "url": "https://www.ttgasia.com/2025/10/30/foreign-retirees-drawn-to-philippines-as-retiree-visa-approvals-near-4000/"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-06-13",
      "note": "\"~60,000 active SRRV holders as of July 2025.\" rn4 also uses 59,000 in the same value line, so the point is approximate within ~59,000–60,000. About 85% Asian (≈40% Chinese, ≈20% South Korean, ≈15% Indian); US retirees under 10% and described as \"mostly former Filipinos who became American citizens\" — so the raw count is not a Western-retiree count.\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-10",
      "value": 60000,
      "range": [
        59000,
        60000
      ],
      "source": {
        "label": "PRA CEO/GM Bob Zozobrado, quoted in TTG Asia, 30 October 2025 (the-srrv-2025-deposit-and-fee-rewrite claim re9)",
        "url": "https://www.ttgasia.com/2025/10/30/foreign-retirees-drawn-to-philippines-as-retiree-visa-approvals-near-4000/"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-05-30",
      "note": "Source states \"approximately 59,000–60,000 holders.\" Point set to 60,000 with the stated band as the range; this is the same PRA book as the 2025-07 row, reported by the same trade press, so the two rows should read as a stable ~59,000–60,000 count rather than a decline.\n",
      "rationale": "The 2025-07 (rn4) and 2025-10 (re9) figures both derive from PRA reporting relayed by TTG Asia in October 2025 and both sit inside ~59,000–60,000. The book is best read as flat/stable across these rows; the ~500-holder gap is within the approximation, not a measured change.\n"
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}