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PhilSys Biometric Match is the Philippines’ official electronic ID for accessing government services and verifying identity. Collects key personal data then performs a liveness selfie to match against the Philippine Statistics Authority’s national ID records covering 90 M+ citizens. To learn more, visit the PhilSys Biometric Match website.

Adoption data

This section provides insights into the adoption of PhilSys Biometric Match among users in the Philippines.
Adoption90 million
Adoption sourcehttps://philsys.gov.ph/90m-filipinos-now-registered-to-the-national-id-system/
Adoption rate98.77%
Coverage91M
StatusIn Integration Pipeline

Provider ID

This is the unique identifier for this digital ID provider in the GBG GO system.
Provider IDphilippines-philsys-match

Compliance

This section outlines compliance and regulatory requirements for integrating this digital ID provider.
Compliance dataStatus
Locality requirementsNone
Scheme-level restrictionsNone
CertificationsNone

Supported attributes

The following attributes are returned when PhilSys Biometric Match is used for identity verification:

Always returned attributes

The following attributes are always returned from a successful verification from this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
firstNameUser’s first name
lastNamesUser’s last name
dateOfBirthUser’s date of birth

Sometimes returned attributes

The following attributes are sometimes returned from a successful verification from this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
middleNameUser’s middle name
suffixName suffix (example; Jr., Sr., III)

Required input attributes

The following attributes are required as input to perform identity verification with this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
firstNamePerson’s first name
middleNamePerson’s middle name
lastNamesPerson’s last name
suffixName suffix (example; Jr., Sr., III)
dateOfBirthPerson’s date of birth