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The Philippines Population (Live) counter shows a continuously updated estimate of the current population of The Philippines delivered by Worldometers' RTS algorithm, which processes data collected from the United Nations Population Division.

The Population of The Philippines (1950 - 2014) chart plots the total population count as of July 1 of each year, from 1950 to 2014.
The Yearly Population Growth Rate chart plots the annual percentage changes in population registered on July 1 of each year, from 1951 to 2014. This value can differ from the Yearly % Change shown in the historical table, which shows the last year equivalent percentage change assuming homogeneous change in the preceding five year period.

Definitions
Year: as of July 1 of the year indicated.

Population: Overall total population (both sexes and all ages) in the country as of July 1 of the year indicated, as estimated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. For forecasted years, the U.N. medium-fertility variant is used.

Yearly % Change: For 2014: percentage change in total population over the last year (from July 1, 2013 to June 30 2014). For all other years: latest year annual percentage change equivalent assuming homogeneous change in the preceding five year period, calculated through reverse compounding.

Yearly Change: For 2014: absolute change in total population (increase or decrease in number of people) over the last year (from July 1, 2013 to June 30 2014). For all other years: average annual numerical change over the preceding five year period.

Migrants (net): The average annual number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants over the preceding five year period (running from July 1 to June 30 of the initial and final years), or four year period (for 2014 data). A negative number means that there are more emigrants than immigrants.

Median Age: age that divides the population into two numerically equal groups: half of the people are older than the median age indicated and half are younger. This parameter provides an indication of age distribution.

Fertility Rate: (Total Fertility Rate, or TFR), it is expressed as children per woman. It is calculated as the average number of children an average woman will have during her reproductive period (15 to 49 years old) based on the current fertility rates of every age group in the country, and assuming she is not subject to mortality.

Density (P/Km²): (Population Density) Population per square Kilometer (Km²).

Urban Pop % : Urban population as a percentage of total population.

Urban Population: Population living in areas classified as urban according to the criteria used by each country.

Country's Share of World Pop: Total population in the country as a percentage of total World Population as of July 1 of the year indicated.

World Population: Total World Population as of July 1 of the year indicated.

Global Rank: Position held by the country in the list of all countries worldwide ranked by population (from the highest population to the lowest population) as of July 1 of the year indicated.

VIII. Factors that Influence Population Growth

A). Biological Factors

1). Fertility
-How many women are having children and the number of children each woman will have.
2). Crude Death Rate
-number of deaths per 1000 individuals
-High death rates usually indicate infant/children mortality.
-If the death rate falls—people live longer & the population will increase even if the birth rate falls
-But eventually the population decreases because people that live longer have fewer children life expectancy (how long an infant is expected to live) -What factors affect the death rate? food supplies
Nutrition
public health systems
Sanitation
water supplies
3) Age Distribution
-Age structure or population profile is the number of people of each age group (a group is 5 years) divided by sex (males on the right and females on the left)

B). Social Factors That Influence Birth Rate

1). Cultural and religious practices 2). Status and desires of women in the culture
3) Availability of birth control and legal abortion
4). Infant mortality
5). Children in the labor force
6). Cost of raising children
7). Availability of pension systems
8). Availability of health care
9). Overall death rate

C). Political Factors
-Government policies on population growth and immigration.
-This may include tax breaks and services for children.
-Limits on the number of children a couple can have.
-(voluntary or mandatory)
- Does the government have any right to interfere with the birth rate?
-How much affect can the government have?

Policies
1. Increase family planning
2. Concentrate on development & economics
Overpopulation

Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. Overpopulation is caused by number of factors. Reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are few of the causes which results in overpopulation. It is possible for a sparsely populated area to become densely populated if it is not able to sustain life.

Growing advances in technology with each coming year has affected humanity in many ways. One of these has been the ability to save lives and create better medical treatment for all. A direct result of this has been increased lifespan and the growth of the population. In the past fifty or so years, the growth of population has boomed and has turned into overpopulation. In the history of our species, the birth and death rate have always been able to balance each and maintain a population growth rate that is sustainable.
Causes of Overpopulation

Decline in the Death Rate: At the root of overpopulation is the difference between the overall birth rate and death rate in populations. If the number of children born each year equals the number of adults that die, then the population will stabilize. Talking about overpopulation shows that while there are many factors that can increase the death rate for short periods of time, the ones that increase the birth rate do so over a long period of time. The discovery of agriculture by our ancestors was one factor that provided them with the ability to sustain their nutrition without hunting. This created the first imbalance between the two rates.
Better Medical Facilities: Following this came the industrial revolution. Technological advancement was perhaps the biggest reason why the balance has been permanently disturbed. Science was able to produce better means of producing food, which allowed families to feed more mouths. Medical science made many discoveries thanks to which they were able to defeat a whole range of diseases. Illnesses that had claimed thousands of lives till now were cured because of the invention of vaccines. Combining the increase in food supply with fewer means of mortality tipped the balance and became the starting point of overpopulation.
More Hands to Overcome Poverty: However, when talking about overpopulation we should understand that there is a psychological component as well. For thousands of years, a very small part of the population had enough money to live in comfort. The rest faced poverty and would give birth to large families to make up for the high infant mortality rate. Families that have been through poverty, natural disasters or are simply in need of more hands to work are a major factor for overpopulation. As compared to earlier times, most of these extra children survive and consume resources that are not sufficient in nature.
Technological Advancement in Fertility Treatment: With latest technological advancement and more discoveries in medical science, it has become possible for couple who are unable to conceive to undergo fertility treatment methods and have their own babies. Today there are effective medicines which can increases the chance of conception and lead to rise in birth rate. Moreover, due to modern techniques pregnancies today are far more safer.
Immigration: Many people prefer to move to developed countries like US, UK, Canada and Australia where best facilities are available in terms of medical, education, security and employment. The end result is that those people settle over there and those places become overcrowded. Difference between the number of people who are leaving the country and the number of people who enter narrows down which leads to more demand for food, clothes, energy and homes. This gives rise to shortage of resources. Though the overall population remains the same, it just affects the density of population making that place simply overcrowded.
Lack of Family Planning: Most developing nations have large number of people who are illiterate, live below the poverty line and have little or no knowledge about family planning. Getting their children married at an early age increase the chances of producing more kids. Those people are unable to understand the harmful effects of overpopulation and lack of ignorance prompts them to avoid family planning measures.
Effects of Overpopulation

Depletion of Natural Resources: The effects of overpopulation are quite severe. The first of these is the depletion of resources. The Earth can only produce a limited amount of water and food, which is falling short of the current needs. Most of the environmental damage being seen in the last fifty odd years is because of the growing number of people on the planet. They are cutting down forests, hunting wildlife in a reckless manner, causing pollution and creating a host of problems. Those engaged in talking about overpopulation have noticed that acts of violence and aggression outside of a war zone have increased tremendously while competing for resources.
Degradation of Environment: With the overuse of coal, oil and natural gas, it has started producing some serious effects on our environment. Rise in the number of vehicles and industries have badly affected the quality of air. Rise in amount of CO2 emissions leads to global warming. Melting of polar ice caps, changing climate patterns, rise in sea level are few of the consequences that we might we have to face due to environment pollution.
Conflicts and Wars: Overpopulation in developing countries puts a major strain on the resources it should be utilizing for development. Conflicts over water are becoming a source of tension between countries, which could result in wars. It causes more diseases to spread and makes them harder to control. Starvation is a huge issue facing the world and the mortality rate for children is being fueled by it. Poverty is the biggest hallmark we see when talking about overpopulation. All of this will only become worse if solutions are not sought out for the factors affecting our population. We can no longer prevent it, but there are ways to control it.
Rise in Unemployment: When a country becomes overpopulated, it gives rise to unemployment as there fewer jobs to support large number of people. Rise in unemployment gives rise to crime as people will steal various items to feed their family and provide them basic amenities of life.
High Cost of Living: As difference between demand and supply continues to expand due to overpopulation, it raises the prices of various commodities including food, shelter and healthcare. This means that people have to pay more to survive and feed their families.

Solutions to Overpopulation

Better Education: One of the first measures is to implement policies reflecting social change. Educating the masses helps them understand the need to have one or two children at the most. Families that are facing a hard life and choose to have four or five children should be discouraged. Family planning and efficient birth control can help in women making their own reproductive choices. Open dialogue on abortion and voluntary sterilization should be seen when talking about overpopulation.
Making People Aware of Family Planning: As population of this world is growing at a rapid pace, raising awareness among people regarding family planning and letting them know about serious after effects of overpopulation can help curb population growth. One of the best way is to let them know about various safe sex techniques and contraceptives methods available to avoid any unwanted pregnancy.
Tax Benefits or Concessions: Government of various countries might have to come with various policies related to tax exemptions to curb overpopulation. One of them might be to waive of certain part of income tax or lowering rates of income tax for those married couples who have single or two children. As we humans are more inclined towards money, this may produce some positive results.
Knowledge of Sex Education: Imparting sex education to young kids at elementary level should be must. Most parents feel shy in discussing such things with their kids which result in their children going out and look out for such information on internet or discuss it with their peers. Mostly, the information is incomplete which results in sexually active teenagers unaware of contraceptives and embarrassed to seek information about same. It is therefore important for parents and teachers to shed their old inhibitions and make their kids or students aware of solid sex education.
Executive Summary: This project discusses how rising human populations affect Earth's environment. According to multiple sources, if we do not change our habits, we will deplete our resources, such as oil, water, and food, and we will experience a possible increase in population and in the economy. Getting a good education is a good way to help prevent all this from happening because you will know what affects we can have on the environment and in turn, our own population.

Introduction: Every day more and more people are introduced into our beautiful thriving world. The problem is, the number of these new lives is increasing exponentially. Like all other species, the human population has a carrying capacity. The carrying capacity determines the maximum number of individuals possible before a population is no longer able to self-sustain. The resources on earth are limited, and as the number of people using these resources grow every second, the resources diminish. One of the main but most basic resources we need to survive is food. Obviously as more people populate the earth, there is a greater and greater demand for food. Currently there are about 7 billion people on earth. It is projected that this number will grow to 9 billion in 2050. Interestingly, there is enough food on earth to feed all 7 billion of us. And yet, hunger and starvation are still a looming reality.

Objectives: To enumerate the different factors that influence population growth. To discuss the causes and effects of overpopulation as well as the solutions to avoid the rapid increase of populations.

Conclusion: Hence, it is concluded that overpopulation is the threat for the stability and strengthening of any nation. In the result inflation time larger families are not a blessing but a curse. So solutions should be taken to aware the people that if the families will small than they can enjoy their lives with all the facilities and the next coming generation will be healthy and organized due to theproper attention of parents. Education should be promoted in small villages and town.

Q: Can our environment support such growth rates?

Factors of high birth rates
1. Improved health care
2. Women marrying young
3. Lack of access/ knowledge on family planning
4. Preference for boys
5. Children as a source of labour

+ Improved health care
 Advancements in medical technology = more babies are surviving to adult age. (E.g. in Niger, the mortality rate for infants has dropped by around 25% since 2000.)

+ Women marrying young
 In some communities, girls are forced to marry at a very young age
 Marry young = start having children of their own earlier = longer child bearing years

+ Lack of or resistance to Family Planning
 Education levels are poor and children grow up uninformed about birth control measures.
 Some places are geographically isolated and do not have access to family planning.
 Some cultures consider large families a status symbol.
(E.g. in Kenya, some Kenyans still practice polygamy. Children equal status and money. One child is as good as none.

+ Preference for boys
 In certain cultures, boys are seen as favored as they can carry on the family name
 Couples keep having babies until a son is born.
 Avoid paying dowries (E.g. in India, parents of the bride will have to pay large dowries to the groom’s family during marriage)

+ Children as labour
 Farming communities need a lot of manpower
 Children serve as free labor and help to cut costs
 More children = more productive farms = more income generated

What can I do?
1. Plan the size of my family. Consider having two or fewer children, and/or adoption.
2. Support domestic and international family planning programs.
3. Become involved in programs supporting equal rights, and educational and job opportunities for women worldwide.
4. Conserve energy and natural resources (one U.S. citizen consumes about 30 times as much as a citizen of India).
5. Encourage reduction of western patterns of consumption.
(The richest fifth of the world consumes 86% of all goods and services and produces 53% of all carbon dioxide emissions, while the poorest fifth consumes 1.3% of goods and services and accounts for just 3% of C02 output.)

Factors that causes low death rate
1. Better living condition
A. Improved in health care (Increase life expectancy)
B. Access to nutritious food (lower infant mortality rate)
C. Access to clean water
2. Peace and stability
No civil war or riots

The Philippines Population 2014
Population Rank: 12
% of World Pop: 1.38%

Also See: Major Cities in The Philippines
April, 2nd 2014

The population of the Philippines has been steadily growing for many years. In 2014, it is the 12th most populated country in the world, between Mexico and Ethiopia, and continues to grow at a rate of 1.89% per year.

2014 Philippines Population

To figure out how many people live in The Philippines in 2014, we can look at data provided by the Philippines National Statistics Office. Projecting this data forward, using the 1.89% growth rate, gives us a 2013 population of 98,734,798 and 2014 population of 100,617,630 in The Philippines. Based on the 2010 census results, the population increased nearly 16 million from the 2000 census results. The growth rate has slowed slightly from the previous census, down to 1.89% from 2.34%. The next census in the Philippines is scheduled for 2015.

Philippines Largest Cities

The Philippines' largest city is Quezon City, which contains 2,679,450 people. It forms a part of the wider Metropolitan Manila area, which is comprised of 16 cities and has an overall population of 11,553,427 people. To make things even more complicated, the entire Greater Manila urban area spills out beyond the boundaries of Metro Manila and is reported to contain around 25 million people – a quarter of the Philippines entire population.

Other major cities include Manila itself (pop: 1,660,714), Caloocan (pop: 1,378,856) and Davao City (1,363,337). Of these, only Davao City is outside of the Metropolitan Manila area.

How Many People Live in The Philippines Right Now?
Based on the most recent estimates, the current population is projected as:
98,734,798

Filipinos Overseas

As well as the approximately 100 million Filipinos living in the Philippines itself, there are estimated to be around 10 million Filipino people living abroad. Many have moved abroad temporarily to find work, but others have settled abroad permanently.

Given its close ties with America, it is not surprising that the United States is home to the largest group of overseas Filipinos - around 3.4 million. There are also large Filipino populations in the Middle East (1.1 million in Saudi Arabia, 600,000 in the UAE and 260,000 in Qatar), Malaysia (900,000), Japan (350,000) and Australia (330,000). Interestingly, only 241,000 Filipinos live in Spain, the Philippines old imperial master.

CARRYING CAPACITY- The maximum population that an area will support without undergoing deterioration.
CARRYING CAPACITY FOR HUMANS: Scientist estimate that our planet can support from 2 billion to 147 billion people.

Above is a simplified Causal Diagram highlighting some key Reinforcing and Balancing loops that impact population growth.