Demographic Indicator
|
Population |
Spanish Period
|
American Period
|
First BCS data
|
Latest NSO
data |
| 1591 | 1903 | 1948 | 1995 | |
| Total Male Female Civilized 1/ Wild People 2/ Density (persons per sq. km.) |
667,612 | 7,635,426 3,496,652 3/ (45.8%) 3,491,034 3/ (45.7%) 6,987,686 647,740 (8.5%) 26 |
19,234,182 9,651,195 (50.2%) 9,582,987 (49.8%) 65 |
68,616,536 34,584,170 (50.4%) 34,032,366 (49.6%) 228 |
| Vital Statistics | 1876 | 1903 | 1948 | 1993 |
| Number of Births Birth Rate (per thousand population) Number of deaths Death Rate (per thousand population) Number of Infant Deaths Infant Death Rate (per thousand population) Number of Marriages Marriage Rate (per thousand population) |
46.2 26.7 |
284,800 37.3 329,671 43.2 |
602,415 31.3 243,467 12.7 68,897 114.4 128,646 13.4 |
1,680,896 25.1 318,546 4.8 34,673 20.6 474,407 14.2 |
Notes :
1/ Civilized people, with the exception of those of the foreign birth, were practically all adherents of the Catholic Church by 1903 Census definitions.
2/ Wild people, was used in the 1903 Census to refer to, among others, those who were Mohammedan in religion and were well known in the islands as Moros.
3/ Distribution by sex based on civilized population only.
Source: National Statistical Coordination Board (2001) QuickStat
http://www. nscb.gov.ph/data/pressrelease/cent-qs.htm [1]