i didn’t realise it went way back..

https://www.pids.gov.ph/details/news/in-the-news/seldom-told-vietnam-beats-phl-in-per-capita-gdp-2#:~:text=Canlas%20said%20the%20per%20capita,per%20capita%20GDP%20in%202020

This is a pattern that started as far back as the 1960s. He said the first Asian country to overtake the Philippines was Korea in 1964, followed by China in 1998.

The Philippines has also been overtaken in terms of per capita GDP by its Asean peers starting with Thailand in 1985; Indonesia in 1993; and Vietnam in 2020.