Population of the Philippines over time, 1960 to 2024

About this dataset

The population of every region, province, city and municipality of the Philippines at every census of the Philippine Statistics Authority and its predecessors since 1960, each counted on its census day, with the annual growth rate between one census and the next: 2010 to 2024 from the PSA's OpenSTAT table, 2000 to 2015 on today's borders from the 2020 census's tables, and 1960 to 2007 as each place was then from the 2015 census's tables. Scene checks every growth rate it shows against the rate the PSA publishes for the same counts.

How the figures were made: Censuses, each a count of every person in the country on one day.

What Scene adds: Nothing. The figures are the source's, as it publishes them.

What it holds

Population by census

The count of each census, from 15 February 1960 to 1 July 2024.

Annual growth rate

How fast the population grew each year between two censuses, in percent, worked out the PSA's way from the exact census days.

Borders

Whether a count is on the place's borders of today (2000 on) or as the place was then (before 2000).

Where it comes from

• 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. Licence: CC BY (PSA Terms of Use).

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  The PSA's notes for this table

  Definition: Total population defines as the sum of the household population and the institutional population, covering all persons living within a specific territory at a given reference time, including Filipinos in embassies or missions abroad. Annual Population Growth Rate is define as how fast a country or specific area's population increases or decreases over a specific period. Method of Computation: Source of Basic Data: 2010 Census of Population and Housing, 2015 Census of Population, 2020 Census of Population and Housing, 2024 Census of Population Level of Disaggregation: Region, Province and Highly Urbanized City, and City/Municipality Note/s: * - Excludes Highly Urbanized Cities a - Population counts for the regions do not add up to the national total. Includes 2,739 Filipinos in Philippine embassies, consulates, and mission abroad. b - Population counts for the regions do not add up to the national total. Includes 2,134 Filipinos in Philippine embassies, consulates, and mission abroad. c - Population counts for the regions do not add up to the national total. Includes 2,098 Filipinos in Philippine embassies, consulates, and mission abroad. d - Population counts for the regions do not add up to the national total. Includes 1,708 Filipinos in Philippine embassies, consulates, and mission abroad. 1/ - Excludes 10 barangays transferred to the City of Taguig, in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in General Register (G.R.) 235316dated 01 December 2021. 2/ - Includes 10 barangays transferred from the City of Makati, in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in General Register (G.R.) 235316 dated 01 December 2021. 3/ - Created into a city under Republic Act. No. 11929; ratified on 17 December 2022. 4/ - Converted into a city under Republic Act No. 11544; ratified on 03 September 2022. 5/ - Converted into a city under Republic Act No. 11938; ratified on 08 July 2023. 6/ - Re-established into a region under Republic Act No. 12000 dated 11 June 2024. 7/ - Transferred province under Republic Act No. 12000 dated 11 June 2024; taken from Region VI (Western Visayas). 8/ - Transferred province under Republic Act No. 12000 dated 11 June 2024; taken from Region VII (Central Visayas). 9/ - Correction of municipality name from Bacungan under Republic Act No. 6830 dated 30 December 1989. 10/ - Created into a province through the division of the Province of Maguindanao under Republic Act No. 11550; ratified on 17 September 2022. 11/ - Renamed from Interim Province; comprised of eight newly created municipalities under Bangsamoro Autonomy Act Nos. 41 to 48 dated 15 September 2022; ratified on 13 April 2024.

• Philippine Statistics Authority

  2020 Census of Population and Housing: Table A (Population and Annual Growth Rate for the Philippines and its Regions, Provinces and Highly Urbanized Cities) and Table B (Population and Annual Growth Rates by Province, City and Municipality, by Region)

  Published July 2021. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. Licence: CC BY (PSA Terms of Use).

  Open the source

• Philippine Statistics Authority

  2015 Census of Population, Statistical Tables, Table 1: Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by City/Municipality, 1960-2015 (one workbook for each province, highly urbanized city and region)

  Published 2017. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. Licence: CC BY (PSA Terms of Use).

  Open the source

How to cite it

Philippine Statistics Authority. Population of the Philippines over time, 1960 to 2024, as published by Scene.ph. https://scene.ph/atlas/sources/population-history. Read October 8, 2026.