Mr. Gannett says that the population of the whole archipelago will approach about 8,000,000. The civilized people will number 7,000,000, and the wild tribes who were counted imperfectly are ...

JEFFREY BROWN: And now to the Philippines, a country struggling to cope with its rapidly growing population. Tonight's story is part of a new project that looks at the challenge of feeding the ...

Lebanon, the Philippines, and South Korea were also highly ranked, with population densities of over 1,000 people per square mile. The U.S. was ranked as the 210th most densely populated area ...

The Philippine eagle has been declared threatened with extinction for nearly three decades, but little is definitely known about its range and its wild population. Using satellite images, decades ...

The country’s population has increased from 48 million in 1980 and 66 million in 1990 to 92 million today. While the numbers loom large, annual population growth has decreased, having reached a ...

The Philippines is still an expanding and a young population and it has been on record that the number of children per woman in the Philippines is about 2.8, well above the 2.1 replacement rate.

The Philippines should start preparing for the “graying” of its population with the increase in the number of senior citizens, the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) said on Tuesday. In ...

“In the horizon we are comfortable making predictions that by 2050, the Philippines is still an expanding and a young population,” he said, noting that the number of children per woman in the ...

For the census, he said there is a need to participate because the government will need to get the number of household members to update the country's population count. 'Failure to participate or ...