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Every place in the Philippines

Every region, province, city, town and barangay, each with how many people live there, its map, and the places around it.

112,729,484 Filipinos counted in the 2024 census[3, 4]

The country's count includes 1,708 Filipinos in the Philippines' embassies, consulates and missions abroad, whom the census counts in no region.[3]

Metro ManilaCordillera Administrative RegionIlocos RegionCagayan ValleyCentral LuzonCALABARZONMIMAROPABicol RegionWestern VisayasNegros Island RegionCentral VisayasEastern VisayasZamboanga PeninsulaNorthern MindanaoDavao RegionSOCCSKSARGENCaragaBangsamoro (BARMM)
Pick a region on the map. Borders from UN OCHA, a guide and not the legal boundary[1, 2]

How the country is divided

Five levels, from the biggest to the smallest. Each one fits inside the one above it. Pick a level to see every place in it.

  1. Island groupsLuzon, the Visayas, Mindanao: a grouping, not a government3
  2. RegionsBig areas that group provinces18
  3. ProvincesEach led by a governor82
  4. Cities and municipalitiesEach led by a mayor1,642

    Of these, 149 cities and 1,493 municipalities.

  5. BarangaysThe smallest unit, led by a punong barangay (kapitan)42,010

The bars use a stretched scale, so the small numbers still show.

Old maps of the Philippines

Each with the archive that holds it, its date and its rights, on its own page.

All 23 in the Archive

Stories from the Philippines

Short films of the country, every line from a source listed under the film.

All Stories

The 18 regions, by people

Each island group and its regions. The longer the bar, the more people live there.

Compare all regions

The Philippines, census by census

From 3,096,031 people in 1840 to 112,729,484 in 2024.

Population from 1800 to 1896 excludes non-ChristiansThe Philippine Statistics Authority's yearbook[5]

Every count

The population of the Philippines at every census, with its source
YearPeople
2024112,729,484[5]
2020109,033,245[5]
2015100,979,303[5]
201092,335,113[5]
200788,546,087[5]
200076,485,088[5]
199568,613,706[5]
199060,703,810[5]
198048,098,460[5]
197542,070,660[5]
197036,684,486[5]
196027,087,685[5]
194819,234,182[5]
193916,000,303[5]
191810,314,310[5]
19037,635,426[5]
18966,261,339[5]
18875,984,727[5]
18775,567,685[5]
18704,712,006[5]
18584,290,381[5]
18503,857,424[5]
18403,096,031[5]

The economy and poverty

The country's economy made ₱28.01 trillion of goods and services in 2025, ₱245,997 for each person. About 16 of every 100 Filipinos lived below the poverty line in 2023.

Economy, 2025Gross domestic productThe value of all the goods and services made in a place in a year: the size of its economy. The PSA measures it for every region, province and highly urbanized city. Counted at 2018 prices, it leaves out the rise in prices, so one year can be set beside another.More in the glossary
₱28.01 trillion[6]The country's gross domestic product at current prices; ₱23.23 trillion at 2018 prices.
Growth, 2024–2025
4.4%[7]How much more it made than the year before, at 2018 prices.
For each person, 2025
₱245,997[8]The economy divided by the projected population, at current prices, as the PSA works it out.
About 16 of every 100 people in the Philippines lived below the poverty line in 2023 (15.5%)[9]

The PSA's survey puts it between 15.1% and 16.0%, with 95% confidence. The poverty line was ₱33,296 a person for the year.

Sources for this page

  1. 1.UN OCHA, from the PSA and NAMRIA. Philippines: Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB), barangay layer. Published February 13, 2025. Read by Scene September 25, 2026. CC BY-IGO 3.0. Open the source
  2. 2.OpenStreetMap contributors. Barangay boundaries from OpenStreetMap, where UN OCHA's layer has none. Published September 25, 2026. Read by Scene September 25, 2026. ODbL 1.0. Open the source
  3. 3.Philippine Statistics Authority. Population and Annual Population Growth Rate of the Philippines and its Regions, Provinces, and Highly Urbanized Cities Based on the 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024 Population Census (OpenSTAT table 0211A6DAPG0). Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  4. 4.Philippine Statistics Authority. Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC), 2nd Quarter 2026: Publication Datafile. Published June 30, 2026. Read by Scene September 24, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  5. 5.Philippine Statistics Authority. Philippine Statistical Yearbook, Table 1.4: Population of the Philippines, census years 1840 to 2024 (OpenSTAT table 0041A2BPOP0). Published June 4, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  6. 6.Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Gross Regional Domestic Product, by Region (OpenSTAT table 0012B5BPGD1). Published April 23, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  7. 7.Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Gross Regional Domestic Product, by Region, Growth Rates (OpenSTAT table 0022B5BPGD2). Published April 23, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  8. 8.Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Per Capita Gross Regional Domestic Product, by Region (OpenSTAT table 0772B5BPCP1). Published April 23, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  9. 9.Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Table 2a. Annual Per Capita Poverty Threshold and Poverty Incidence Among Population with Measures of Precision, by Region, Province and Highly Urbanized Cities: 2018, 2021, and 2023 (OpenSTAT table 0041F3DF02A). Published August 15, 2024. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source

Scene adds what the sources do not print themselves: growth rates, shares, barangay areas and densities, coordinates, neighbours and distances, each computed from the figures and borders above. How each is made.

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