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The first census in the Philippines in 1591, was based on tributes collected and yielded about 666,712 people in the islands. In 1799, Friar Manuel Buzeta estimated the population count as 1,502,574. However, the first official census in the Philippines was carried out by the Spanish government pursuant to a royal decree calling for the ...
Population density (people per km 2) by country This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density , sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile . The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
The Philippines' average annual population growth rate is decreasing, [475] although government attempts to further reduce population growth have been contentious. [476] The country reduced its poverty rate from 49.2 percent in 1985 [ 477 ] to 18.1 percent in 2021, [ 478 ] and its income inequality began to decline in 2012.
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) ... Philippines: 298,170 115,124 109,961,895 369 956 Other methods of measurement.
Largest Urban Area by Population (Metro Manila): ranked 3 (2015) Largest Metropolis by Population (Metro Manila): ranked 11; Manila (Richest cities, PricewaterhouseCoopers): ranked 40; Manila (Most expensive cities, Mercer Human Resource Consulting 2008): ranked 126
Manila is the world's most densely populated city proper, [5] [6] with 43,611.5 inhabitants per square kilometer (112,953/sq mi) and a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020; [5] it is also the historic core of a built-up area that extends well beyond its administrative limits and includes some 24 million people. Manila was the first chartered ...
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.
The region has the highest literacy rate among all the regions of the Philippines, with 99.2% in 2008. Literacy rate for males is at 99.0% while literacy rate for females is at 99.4%. [131] For the school year of 2008–2009, Metro Manila has 511 public elementary schools and 220 public secondary schools.