PSA: Slower Paced PH Population Growth Seen

Population growth of the Philippines continues to move at a slow pace, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.

This comes as Filipinos now prefer to have smaller family and household sizes, PSA added.

Data from the 2020 Census of Population and Housing show that the overall population of the Philippines grew by 1.63 percent between 2015 and 2020, slower than that of 2010 until 2015 when the country’s population growth was at 1.72 percent, according to PSA Undersecretary and National Statistician Dennis Mapa

Mapa added that the country’s total population was at 109,035,343 as of May 1, 2020, over 8 million higher from the 100,981,437 recorded population back in 2015.

The most populous regions in the country in 2020 is Region 4-A which comprises of Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Quezon, and Rizal provinces with a collective population of 16,195,042.

National Capital Region (NCR) was second at a population of 13,484,462; and Region 3 (Central Luzon) followed at a population of 12,422,172.

Mapa added that the combined population of Central Luzon, NCR, and Region 4-A accounts for 38.61 percent of the total population of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, Batanes is the least populous area in the country, with a population of only 18,831 people. (GFB)