Philippine Population Hits 90 Million 1058 times read
On 11 June 2008, the Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board presented the following highlights of the 2007 population census:
• The total population of the Philippines in 2007 was 88.57 million, based on the 2007 Census of Population. This was 76.50 million in 2000 based on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, and 68.62 million in 1995 based on the 1995 Mid-Decade Census.
• The 2007 and 2000 census figures translate into an average annual growth rate of 2.04 percent for the period 2000-2007. This is the lowest population growth rate recorded for the Philippines since the 1960s. It is highly likely that the current (2008) population of the Philippines based on the growth rate would now be about 90 million.
The projected average annual population growth rate is 1.95 percent for the period 2005-2010.
• Among the 17 administrative regions, CALABARZON (Region IVA) had the largest population with 11.74 million, while the National Capital Region (NCR) with 11.55 million and Central Luzon (Region III) with 9.72 million had the next largest population sizes. The population of these three regions together comprised more than one-third (37.3 percent) of the Philippine population.
Only five regions had growth rates higher than the national rate. These are NCR (2.11 percent), Region III (2.36 percent), Region IVA (3.21 percent), Region XII (2.41 percent), and ARMM (5.46 percent).
• The provinces with less than one hundred thousand populace were Batanes (16 thousand persons), Camiguin (81 thousand persons), and Siquijor (88 thousand persons).
Batanes Province was the only unit that registered a negative population growth rate at - 0.42%.
• Of the 32 highly urbanized cities (HUC), only four had populations exceeding one million. Three of such HUCs are in the NCR: Quezon City (2.68 million), Manila (1.66 million), and Kalookan City (1.38 million). Outside NCR, the only highly urbanized city having a population of more than one million was Davao City with a population of 1.36 million.
• Barangay 176 of Kalookan City was the most populous Barangay with 221,874 inhabitants.
