NSO: PHL population now at 92.34M as of 2010

source: gmanetwork.com

Philippine population growth slowed down by 18.8 percent from a national annual rate of 2.34 percent from 1990-2000 to 1.9 percent from 2000- 2010,according to final results of the 2010 National Statistics Office (NSO) population census posted on its website.

As the official population count, the 2010 Census of Population and Housing is one of the key bases for long-term economic and financial programs of both government and private sectors. It aids state economic planners in allocating limited resources across the nation.

For the private sector, the population census is also a planning input for marketing campaigns and logistics operations.

NSO figures showed the country had a population of 92,337,852 which is 15.83 million more than the count done in the Year 2000, when there were only 76.51 million Filipinos.

At the 1.9 percent growth rate, the Philippines will hit the 100 million population mark by August 2014--just four years and three months after the 2010 census data came in.

The most populous region is not the National Capital region but the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon provinces) which had 12.61 million residents.

NCR is second at 11.86 million residents. Central Luzon is third most populous at 10.14 million.

“Among the provinces, Cavite had the largest population with 3.09 million. Bulacan had the second largest with 2.92 million and Pangasinan had the third largest with 2.78 million,” the NSO said.

“Six other provinces surpassed the two million mark: Laguna (2.67 million); Cebu, excluding its three highly urbanized cities Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, and Mandaue City (2.62 million); Rizal (2.48 million); Negros Occidental, excluding Bacolod City (2.40 million); Batangas (2.38 million) and Pampanga, excluding Angeles City (2.01 million),” the census-taking agency also said.

Least populated–with less than 100,000 people–are Batanes (16,604), Camiguin (83,807), and Siquijor (91,066).

Four of 13 highly urbanized cities are past the one million mark and three of them are in Metro Manila: Quezon City (2.76 million), City of Manila (1.65 million), and Caloocan City (1.49 million).

Outside NCR, only Davao City has a population of more than one million (1.45 million).


Newborn twins cradled by their mothers at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila on Monday are among the recent additions to the 92,337,852 million Filipinos that the Nat'l Statistics Office listed as of 2010. The population had gone up by 15.83M since 2000. Danny Pata

Women's welfare and smaller family sizes

According to the Washington DC-based think tank, Population Reference Bureau (PRB), two factors are key to small family sizes: the age at which women get married and the educational attainment of women.

“Generally, the age at which a woman first marries is directly related to the number of children she will bear because it affects the length of time she will be at risk of becoming pregnant. Of course, unmarried women may also have children, but the vast majority of childbearing takes place within marriage throughout most of the world, which makes the age at marriage a valuable indicator of a woman's lifetime fertility,” the PRB said.

The think tank also notes that women of higher educational attainment “are more likely to enter the labor force before they marry or begin childbearing, and ultimately to have smaller families than women who marry in their teens. This trend is evident in almost every country where data are available.”

source: gmanetwork.com