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The country of the Philippines is an archipelago made up of over 7,000 islands that total
115,831 square miles (300,000 square kilometers).
It is the 13th most populated country in the world, between Mexico and Ethiopia, and grew at
a rate of 1.72% between 2010 and 2015.
The islands of the Philippines are broken up into three categories: Luzon, Visayas, and
Mindanao - which are basically north, central and south.
The overall population density of the Philippines is 939 people per square mile (363 people
per square kilometer).
Quezon City is the largest city in the Philippines with a total population of 2,936,116 people.
Philippines Demographics
The latest data available comes from the 2000 census, which reported the following
breakdown:
Tagalog, 28.1%
Cebuano, 13.1%
Ilocano, 9%
Bisaya, 7.6%
Hiligaynon, 7.5%
Bikol, 6%
Waray, 3.4%
Other, 25.3%
The remaining 11% of the Philippine population are from other Christian denominations and
around 5.6% are Muslim, mainly based in the southwest area of the country.
Although the official language of the Philippines was, for many years, Spanish, the legacy of
the American administration during the first half of the 20th century has been that its two
official languages today are English and Filipino (derived from Tagalog.)
The recent 2015 estimates in the World Factbook give some insight into the developments
across the Philippine county. 91.8% have improved access to drinking water sources.
Literacy is at 96.3% across the entire population, with a school expenditure of approximately
2.7% of the national GDP.
The first census in the Philippines was held in 1591 and recorded a population of
just 667,612 people.
The Philippines crossed the 1,000,000 threshold in the mid 18th century and grew
to nearly 8 million by 1900.
Of the 100 million Filipinos living in the Philippines itself, there are estimated to
be around 10.2 million Filipino people living abroad.
United States is home to the largest group of overseas Filipinos with over 3.5
million.
There are also large Filipino populations in the Middle East (1 million in Saudi
Arabia
204,000 in Qatar
Malaysia (793,000)
Japan (182,000)
Australia (397,000.)
Interestingly, only about 42,000 Filipinos live in Spain, the Philippines' old
imperial master.
Based on the 2015 census results, the population increased by over 8 million
people when compared to the 2010 census results.
The growth rate has slowed slightly from the previous census, down to 1.72%
from 1.89%.
The population is forecast to hit 110 million by 2020, and 125 million by 2030.