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In 1941 the estimated population of the Philippines reached 17,000,000. [40] Manila's population was 684,000. [41] By then, some 27% of the population could speak English as a second language, while the number of Spanish speakers as first language had further fallen to 3% from 10 to 14% at the beginning of the century.
This is a list of regions and provinces of the Philippines by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2024. [1] The HDI is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
The agency, then known as POPCOM, was created in 1969 by virtue of Executive Order (EO) 171 [1] which established a 22-member Commission on Population. [2]Republic Act 6365, [3] or the Population Act of the Philippines, [4] was enacted into law by the Philippine Congress on August 16, 1971, which established the National Population Policy.
The Philippine census is a regularly occurring and official inventory of the human population and housing units in the Philippines. Since 1970, the population has been enumerated every five years. [a] Results from the censuses are used to allocate congressional seats and fund government programs. The mid-year census is known as the Census of ...
Own work, data taken from Philippine Statistics Authority on Age and Sex Distribution in the Philippine Population (2020 Census of Population and Housing), Table: Household Population by Age Group, Sex, Region, Province and City/Municipality: Author: Tweedle
Pursuant to Batas Pambansa No. 72, the population count gathered from the 2020 census was made official upon proclamation of the results by the president. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] From 2015 to 2020, the Philippines' population increased by 1.63% which is lower than the 1.72% growth rate recorded in the 2010 to 2015 period.
About 13.48 million people (12 percent of the Philippines' population) live in Metro Manila, [470] the country's most populous metropolitan area [471] and the world's fifth most populous. [472] Between 1948 and 2010, the population of the Philippines increased almost fivefold from 19 million to 92 million.
This is a list of Philippine provinces sorted by population as of the 2020 census, which was conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Population of provinces in this list includes population of highly urbanized cities, which are administratively independent of the province.