The population of the Philippines

Main items: Filipinos and Chinese Filipinos.

The main ethnic groups in the Philippines are Visayas, Tagalog, Ilogo, Bambanya, Visayas and Bikol. Foreign residents include China, Arabs, Indians, Spaniards and Americans; There are also a few indigenous people.

When the Philippine government conducted the first census in 1960, the population of the Philippines was only about 27 million. Since then, the population of the Philippines has increased by 10 every year. In the past 30 years, although the population growth rate has decreased, the population growth rate has accelerated due to the increase of the population base. During the nearly 20 years from 1990 to 2008, the population of the Philippines increased by 28 million, an increase of 45%. On the website of the Philippine Population Commission, the real-time population counting board shows that as of 16+02, the estimated population of the Philippines has reached 989802 14.

20 14 In the early morning of July 27th, the total population of the Philippines exceeded 10 billion, making it the second country in the world with a population of over 100 million.

According to the report of the Philippine Population Commission, the population growth rate of the Philippines is 2.04%, which is lower than 2.36% in the 1980s, but it still ranks first in Asia. More than 80% of Filipinos are Catholics. From the standpoint of the church's "pro-life", the reproductive health law has been shelved in the Philippine Congress for 15 years, and most people also believe that children are a gift from heaven, let nature take its course and do not use artificial contraceptives.

According to the survey of the Philippine Population Commission, the total fertility rate in the Philippines is 3.2, which means that a couple has an average of three to four children. However, the survey also pointed out that most large families come from poor classes, while the rich have only two or three children on average.