Country or area · South-Eastern Asia · Asia · UN WPP 2024

Philippines population

Philippines population now

117,953,414

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 116.3–120.1 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 114,891,199

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 117.724 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 116.3–120.1 million
Median age: 27.6
Aged 65+: 6.0%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2057

male female projection · one cell = 20,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

PHL · 1950–2100 · in brief

Philippines in numbers

The UN counts 114,891,199 people in The Philippines in mid-2023, which makes it the 13th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 1.4% of the world's people. That is 6.1 times its 1950 population of 18.8 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2057 at 135 million, then falling to 114 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 59.2 million to 208 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2061; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 16.5 in 1950 and 26.3 in 2023; the projection has 47.1 in 2100. 5.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 26.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2053 at 93.2 million.

Among countries it ranks 13th in 2023, 14th in 2050 and 19th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Japan in 2029 and Russia in 2054. It is overtaken by Egypt in 2024, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2027 and Tanzania in 2052.

Population, mid-2023: 114,891,199
Rank by population, 2023: 13 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 1.4%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.81% · +926,861 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 385
Land area, 2023: 298,170 km²
Births, 2023: 1,840,477
Deaths, 2023: 716,490
Net migration, 2023: −164,284
Children per woman, 2023: 1.92
Median age, 2023: 26.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 69.8 years
In a city, 2025: 42 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 18,849,528
Projected, mid-2050: 134,373,439
Projected, mid-2100: 114,221,910

PHL · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: Philippines, 1950–2100

Philippines: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	18,500,570		903,377	287,167	7.13	53.6
1951	estimate	19,198,485		936,259	286,467	7.12	54.1
1952	estimate	19,937,677		971,723	284,714	7.11	54.7
1953	estimate	20,719,827		1,009,285	282,166	7.10	55.4
1954	estimate	21,545,173		1,047,859	280,737	7.09	56.0
1955	estimate	22,419,834		1,088,136	279,460	7.07	56.6
1956	estimate	23,341,313		1,130,187	277,579	7.05	57.3
1957	estimate	24,310,307		1,172,982	276,949	7.03	57.8
1958	estimate	25,321,402		1,217,453	276,696	7.00	58.3
1959	estimate	26,363,646		1,265,905	277,725	7.00	58.8
1960	estimate	27,451,569		1,315,325	279,321	7.00	59.2
1961	estimate	28,332,226		1,344,594	280,210	6.99	59.5
1962	estimate	29,253,015		1,373,209	281,252	6.98	59.8
1963	estimate	30,194,058		1,398,897	282,299	6.95	60.0
1964	estimate	31,155,404		1,417,363	285,756	6.89	60.1
1965	estimate	32,130,659		1,432,484	286,388	6.80	60.4
1966	estimate	33,119,972		1,444,612	288,092	6.69	60.6
1967	estimate	34,114,367		1,457,191	290,477	6.57	60.8
1968	estimate	35,128,273		1,466,196	294,036	6.45	60.9
1969	estimate	36,148,411		1,485,124	298,831	6.33	61.0
1970	estimate	37,173,187		1,507,540	308,594	6.22	60.8
1971	estimate	38,071,221		1,520,474	310,220	6.08	61.1
1972	estimate	38,966,097		1,525,319	318,911	5.94	60.9
1973	estimate	39,851,024		1,534,411	328,099	5.79	60.7
1974	estimate	40,737,236		1,552,516	333,637	5.69	60.8
1975	estimate	41,611,446		1,578,550	339,494	5.60	60.9
1976	estimate	42,630,206		1,607,428	349,142	5.50	60.9
1977	estimate	43,772,770		1,662,653	348,653	5.44	61.4
1978	estimate	44,963,154		1,722,772	358,146	5.39	61.5
1979	estimate	46,187,409		1,759,077	365,006	5.25	61.7
1980	estimate	47,426,798		1,785,628	371,912	5.11	61.9
1981	estimate	48,660,682		1,817,419	380,840	4.97	61.9
1982	estimate	49,962,772		1,872,828	387,052	4.92	62.2
1983	estimate	51,428,643		1,937,889	395,697	4.87	62.4
1984	estimate	52,960,598		1,986,220	406,312	4.77	62.4
1985	estimate	54,491,764		2,024,329	410,308	4.66	62.7
1986	estimate	55,934,248		2,048,635	417,148	4.56	62.9
1987	estimate	57,355,907		2,088,331	416,999	4.51	63.3
1988	estimate	58,959,085		2,125,063	417,611	4.45	63.7
1989	estimate	60,519,018		2,145,809	417,436	4.37	64.1
1990	estimate	62,011,501		2,169,483	419,862	4.32	64.4
1991	estimate	63,697,832		2,205,544	423,409	4.27	64.6
1992	estimate	65,066,665		2,180,457	411,197	4.16	65.3
1993	estimate	66,785,586		2,201,331	412,922	4.10	65.7
1994	estimate	68,275,657		2,227,175	413,373	4.08	66.0
1995	estimate	69,762,925		2,262,167	415,200	4.07	66.3
1996	estimate	71,329,566		2,263,953	414,344	4.00	66.7
1997	estimate	73,050,919		2,277,739	416,628	3.94	67.0
1998	estimate	74,766,701		2,291,723	421,347	3.88	67.2
1999	estimate	76,815,347		2,319,865	425,725	3.83	67.5
2000	estimate	78,691,166		2,331,835	429,510	3.75	67.8
2001	estimate	80,559,628		2,372,487	441,273	3.72	67.8
2002	estimate	82,243,348		2,370,297	450,692	3.65	67.9
2003	estimate	83,894,429		2,381,067	458,187	3.59	68.0
2004	estimate	85,569,241		2,386,999	462,726	3.52	68.3
2005	estimate	87,219,768		2,389,958	471,512	3.45	68.4
2006	estimate	88,812,155		2,454,272	493,967	3.47	68.2
2007	estimate	90,205,817		2,459,027	494,312	3.40	68.5
2008	estimate	91,944,551		2,514,010	506,449	3.40	68.6
2009	estimate	93,453,638		2,547,176	521,533	3.38	68.6
2010	estimate	95,314,862		2,559,111	528,136	3.31	68.9
2011	estimate	97,359,388		2,555,164	536,709	3.24	69.1
2012	estimate	99,137,841		2,526,446	546,816	3.14	69.2
2013	estimate	101,213,184		2,506,971	562,222	3.04	69.3
2014	estimate	102,939,488		2,428,538	576,722	2.89	69.3
2015	estimate	104,594,772		2,415,119	587,987	2.83	69.5
2016	estimate	106,031,211		2,322,601	604,332	2.68	69.5
2017	estimate	107,440,227		2,224,168	601,636	2.52	70.0
2018	estimate	108,799,160		2,125,551	629,700	2.38	69.8
2019	estimate	110,131,413		2,006,034	653,287	2.21	69.7
2020	estimate	111,477,954		1,907,237	653,597	2.08	70.1
2021	estimate	112,684,574		1,821,790	903,857	1.95	66.7
2022	estimate	113,517,326		1,829,885	714,113	1.93	69.5
2023	estimate	114,411,351		1,840,477	716,490	1.92	69.8
2024	estimate	115,371,047		1,841,191	735,575	1.89	70.0
2025	projection	116,316,292	115.7–116.9 million	1,845,745	755,084	1.88	70.1
2026	projection	117,257,633	116.0–118.5 million	1,853,794	775,845	1.86	70.2
2027	projection	118,191,310	116.3–120.1 million	1,860,957	796,375	1.85	70.3
2028	projection	119,121,517	116.6–121.8 million	1,869,467	817,005	1.84	70.4
2029	projection	120,046,446	116.7–123.4 million	1,875,579	838,282	1.83	70.5
2030	projection	120,957,813	116.9–125.3 million	1,882,017	859,398	1.82	70.7
2031	projection	121,859,977	117.1–127.0 million	1,887,413	881,323	1.81	70.8
2032	projection	122,743,217	117.2–128.8 million	1,895,002	903,439	1.80	70.9
2033	projection	123,617,444	117.4–130.6 million	1,902,440	925,327	1.80	71.0
2034	projection	124,480,613	117.4–132.4 million	1,909,257	947,200	1.80	71.2
2035	projection	125,327,615	117.7–134.2 million	1,910,912	969,711	1.79	71.3
2036	projection	126,154,328	117.9–135.9 million	1,909,831	991,035	1.79	71.4
2037	projection	126,962,124	117.9–137.8 million	1,903,991	1,011,632	1.78	71.6
2038	projection	127,743,069	118.0–139.6 million	1,894,116	1,033,068	1.78	71.7
2039	projection	128,493,985	117.9–141.2 million	1,880,158	1,053,083	1.77	71.8
2040	projection	129,206,096	117.9–142.8 million	1,866,258	1,073,439	1.77	71.9
2041	projection	129,887,223	117.9–144.4 million	1,850,110	1,093,041	1.76	72.0
2042	projection	130,532,380	117.6–145.9 million	1,833,095	1,112,431	1.76	72.2
2043	projection	131,141,613	117.6–147.6 million	1,815,658	1,131,465	1.76	72.3
2044	projection	131,713,173	117.5–149.0 million	1,793,017	1,150,229	1.75	72.4
2045	projection	132,246,154	117.4–150.7 million	1,769,634	1,169,157	1.75	72.6
2046	projection	132,737,909	117.1–152.0 million	1,743,992	1,187,220	1.75	72.7
2047	projection	133,186,092	116.5–153.3 million	1,716,495	1,206,785	1.75	72.8
2048	projection	133,584,481	116.2–154.7 million	1,687,292	1,224,551	1.74	73.0
2049	projection	133,934,380	116.0–156.5 million	1,657,843	1,242,432	1.74	73.1
2050	projection	134,243,619	115.6–157.6 million	1,627,665	1,258,578	1.74	73.2
2051	projection	134,503,259	114.9–159.5 million	1,600,776	1,275,800	1.73	73.4
2052	projection	134,721,963	114.0–160.7 million	1,574,417	1,293,151	1.73	73.5
2053	projection	134,888,149	113.2–161.7 million	1,550,838	1,311,421	1.73	73.6
2054	projection	135,017,688	112.6–162.9 million	1,529,681	1,329,029	1.73	73.8
2055	projection	135,111,758	111.9–164.0 million	1,509,052	1,346,363	1.73	73.9
2056	projection	135,166,503	111.4–164.8 million	1,491,949	1,364,247	1.72	74.0
2057	projection	135,182,289	110.7–166.8 million	1,475,417	1,380,758	1.72	74.2
2058	projection	135,176,407	109.7–168.1 million	1,461,669	1,399,162	1.72	74.3
2059	projection	135,144,450	108.7–169.6 million	1,451,930	1,418,128	1.71	74.4
2060	projection	135,077,733	108.1–170.9 million	1,445,229	1,435,105	1.71	74.6
2061	projection	134,986,784	107.2–171.7 million	1,439,671	1,452,142	1.71	74.7
2062	projection	134,872,545	106.0–172.8 million	1,434,814	1,469,830	1.71	74.9
2063	projection	134,733,661	104.9–173.9 million	1,431,473	1,487,636	1.71	75.0
2064	projection	134,577,130	103.3–175.4 million	1,430,113	1,506,232	1.71	75.1
2065	projection	134,399,228	102.2–176.5 million	1,426,703	1,524,938	1.71	75.3
2066	projection	134,195,107	100.8–177.0 million	1,422,824	1,542,466	1.71	75.4
2067	projection	133,979,749	99.6–177.3 million	1,417,796	1,560,333	1.71	75.5
2068	projection	133,735,808	98.5–179.1 million	1,412,453	1,575,904	1.71	75.7
2069	projection	133,473,865	96.9–180.2 million	1,406,257	1,592,980	1.71	75.8
2070	projection	133,187,801	96.2–182.1 million	1,396,037	1,609,206	1.70	76.0
2071	projection	132,875,585	95.1–182.2 million	1,386,374	1,624,117	1.70	76.1
2072	projection	132,541,872	93.8–184.6 million	1,375,214	1,639,242	1.70	76.3
2073	projection	132,177,702	92.9–185.3 million	1,362,118	1,654,565	1.70	76.4
2074	projection	131,788,590	91.4–186.8 million	1,347,860	1,669,381	1.70	76.5
2075	projection	131,368,202	90.2–187.0 million	1,334,681	1,682,536	1.70	76.7
2076	projection	130,925,904	89.2–188.1 million	1,317,078	1,696,066	1.70	76.8
2077	projection	130,453,889	87.9–189.8 million	1,299,817	1,709,198	1.70	77.0
2078	projection	129,944,348	86.8–190.0 million	1,283,364	1,719,939	1.69	77.1
2079	projection	129,414,119	85.9–190.9 million	1,267,007	1,730,013	1.69	77.3
2080	projection	128,863,335	84.5–192.2 million	1,250,438	1,739,617	1.69	77.4
2081	projection	128,280,800	83.5–193.8 million	1,232,761	1,746,335	1.69	77.6
2082	projection	127,679,541	82.2–195.9 million	1,216,628	1,754,806	1.69	77.7
2083	projection	127,052,531	80.8–196.1 million	1,202,101	1,761,261	1.69	77.9
2084	projection	126,407,399	79.6–196.3 million	1,185,563	1,765,730	1.69	78.0
2085	projection	125,737,983	78.4–197.5 million	1,169,566	1,770,712	1.69	78.2
2086	projection	125,046,218	76.9–199.1 million	1,156,127	1,772,431	1.69	78.3
2087	projection	124,340,012	75.8–199.5 million	1,144,163	1,775,158	1.69	78.4
2088	projection	123,622,113	74.3–200.2 million	1,133,018	1,775,773	1.69	78.6
2089	projection	122,894,558	73.2–200.3 million	1,123,421	1,774,267	1.69	78.8
2090	projection	122,157,892	72.5–202.3 million	1,113,824	1,772,994	1.69	78.9
2091	projection	121,413,621	71.1–202.9 million	1,103,389	1,771,358	1.68	79.0
2092	projection	120,659,219	69.8–203.6 million	1,095,521	1,767,516	1.68	79.2
2093	projection	119,902,939	68.2–204.3 million	1,087,659	1,764,425	1.68	79.3
2094	projection	119,144,703	66.8–205.6 million	1,079,555	1,759,258	1.68	79.5
2095	projection	118,387,691	65.3–206.4 million	1,073,239	1,754,924	1.68	79.6
2096	projection	117,624,456	63.9–206.5 million	1,066,431	1,747,996	1.68	79.8
2097	projection	116,861,009	62.8–207.6 million	1,059,317	1,740,275	1.67	79.9
2098	projection	116,104,017	62.1–208.9 million	1,053,107	1,730,285	1.67	80.1
2099	projection	115,349,551	60.5–209.0 million	1,047,749	1,719,756	1.67	80.2
2100	projection	114,596,066	59.2–208.2 million	1,040,837	1,708,025	1.67	80.3

Show the numbers: Philippines, mid-2026, by single year of age

Philippines: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	939,336	875,145
1	930,842	867,006
2	925,808	861,546
3	920,037	855,744
4	913,318	849,692
5	931,911	867,208
6	1,023,010	970,372
7	1,115,470	1,080,870
8	1,144,380	1,112,530
9	1,161,380	1,130,070
10	1,166,020	1,133,460
11	1,158,640	1,121,270
12	1,174,840	1,135,970
13	1,197,060	1,157,810
14	1,205,200	1,167,280
15	1,198,380	1,161,640
16	1,184,590	1,150,050
17	1,179,970	1,147,290
18	1,161,520	1,130,600
19	1,132,280	1,104,220
20	1,113,770	1,086,110
21	1,097,730	1,073,580
22	1,079,370	1,062,920
23	1,065,490	1,055,390
24	1,067,580	1,058,660
25	1,074,180	1,063,110
26	1,069,540	1,057,180
27	1,055,470	1,043,600
28	1,036,890	1,026,490
29	1,020,630	1,011,340
30	1,006,800	997,435
31	992,471	981,984
32	976,446	964,308
33	962,930	948,334
34	951,880	934,117
35	934,173	913,776
36	908,652	886,676
37	879,034	856,693
38	846,948	825,579
39	817,512	798,169
40	791,568	775,242
41	767,939	755,332
42	746,984	738,304
43	730,971	725,164
44	719,007	714,522
45	705,718	702,431
46	687,744	686,206
47	663,156	663,942
48	633,878	637,213
49	605,936	611,049
50	582,660	588,981
51	563,287	570,899
52	545,722	555,136
53	532,528	544,379
54	524,060	538,834
55	512,921	531,429
56	495,442	518,494
57	473,130	501,024
58	449,888	482,186
59	430,216	465,832
60	414,446	452,544
61	398,720	438,930
62	379,666	422,004
63	359,460	404,532
64	340,639	389,040
65	322,075	373,909
66	302,510	357,586
67	280,912	338,707
68	257,991	317,755
69	236,244	297,267
70	216,040	277,542
71	195,764	256,742
72	174,837	234,484
73	155,056	213,309
74	137,352	194,488
75	120,932	176,920
76	106,667	161,364
77	90,884	143,916
78	72,848	122,944
79	56,966	103,100
80	44,769	87,116
81	35,160	74,008
82	27,886	63,276
83	22,776	54,805
84	18,563	46,952
85	14,931	39,304
86	11,876	32,410
87	9,312	26,409
88	7,146	20,958
89	5,320	16,114
90	3,858	12,067
91	2,782	8,924
92	1,975	6,484
93	1,334	4,514
94	867	3,032
95	550	1,978
96	339	1,252
97	205	773
98	120	461
99	66	263
100+	56	316

PHL · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Philippines, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

PHL · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Philippines

On the UN's projection, the Philippines will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2053: 93,226,300 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 75,977,900.

100 aged 15–64

43 children

8 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 41 years: 2025–2065.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

PHL · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Philippines, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the Philippines loses 145,950 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 29,884 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

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more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 178,274 (1998) and the most it lost was 566,647 (2006).

In 2024, 87,212 people living in the Philippines had been born in another country, fewer than 1 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

PHL · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Philippines

Of every 100 babies born in the Philippines in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 74 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 8 under 20 and 18 aged 35 or older.

1950
8 · 74 · 18

2023
10 · 74 · 16

2050 · projected
7 · 68 · 25

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 1,840,477
Average age when women have a baby: 29.0 years; 30.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 32; 69 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the Philippines by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	425	1,724	1,570	1,914	1,497	436
15–19	69,329	156,856	192,151	175,911	104,935	29,771
20–24	236,114	459,003	647,318	455,430	247,640	118,894
25–29	251,615	424,395	636,648	514,174	393,634	297,854
30–34	183,443	273,168	469,600	400,567	472,567	342,129
35–39	118,156	185,197	276,446	215,604	307,497	198,158
40–44	38,398	66,689	95,817	69,361	91,967	49,637
45–49	5,684	11,054	11,826	7,347	7,829	3,918
50–54	213	464	459	169	99	40
All babies	903,377	1,578,550	2,331,835	1,840,477	1,627,665	1,040,837

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

PHL · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Philippines

A baby born in the Philippines in 2021 could expect 66.4 years of life, 58.8 of them in full health (95% range 58.1–59.6). The years in less than full health come to 7.6, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

60.8 in full health, 9.1 not: 69.9 years

Men

57.1 in full health, 6.3 not: 63.4 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 60.8 healthy years of 69.9. Men: 57.1 of 63.4. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 61.3.

PHL · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Philippines

At the end of 2025, 43,500 people were displaced inside the Philippines, about 0.4 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad1,974
displaced inside it43,500
Philippines nationals abroad6,895

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 1,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from the Philippines living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 463 people asked for asylum in the Philippines for the first time; 3,204 people from the Philippines asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from the Philippines whose claims were decided that year, 3 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

PHL · of every 100 people

How people live in Philippines

Of every 100 people in the Philippines in 2025, 42 lived in a city, 43 in a town or suburb and 15 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

5.2 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 32.7 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

PHL · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Philippines went in school

Of every 100 adults in the Philippines in 2020, 2 never went to school and 63 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 12 some primary 19 finished primary 4 finished lower secondary 39 finished upper secondary 24 studied after school

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2065; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

PHL · cities · 2025

Cities in Philippines

The Philippines had 114 cities in 2025, home to 49.0 million people. The largest, Manila, holds 21 of every 100 people in the Philippines.

Manila24,735,305
Cebu City3,044,564
Davao City1,546,026
Angeles1,445,721
Dagupan [Lingayen]953,092
Cagayan de Oro870,291
Iloilo City717,038
Bacolod655,836
Lipa614,898
Baguio565,522

All 26 cities in the Philippines that reach 300,000 people

Manila 24,735,305
Cebu City 3,044,564
Davao City 1,546,026
Angeles 1,445,721
Dagupan [Lingayen] 953,092
Cagayan de Oro 870,291
Iloilo City 717,038
Bacolod 655,836
Lipa 614,898
Baguio 565,522
Zamboanga City 513,813
General Santos 498,098
Batangas City 415,103
Iligan 341,172
Naga 338,596
Lucena 323,308
Tagum 303,614
Tacloban 285,095
Binangonan 276,785
Legazpi 276,662
San Pablo 276,250
Cabanatuan 272,890
Panabo 244,050
Marawi 134,181
Jolo 74,210
Masiu 63,354 (2010)

How to read this: the 10 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for the Philippines are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.