Filipinos

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This article is about the people of the Philippines. For the demographics, see
Demographics of the Philippines. For other uses, see Filipino (disambiguation).
"People of the Philippines" redirects here. For the use of this term in the titles of criminal
cases, see the Crown § In the courts.
Filipinos
Mga Pilipino
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Total population
c. 108 million[1]
(c. 11–12 million in Filipino diaspora)[2][3]
Filipino people in the world.svg
Regions with significant populations
Philippines c. 100 million
United States 3,416,840[4]
Saudi Arabia 1,020,000
Canada 837,130[5]
United Arab Emirates 679,819[6]
Malaysia 245,089[7]
Japan 260,553[8]
Qatar 236,000[9][10]
Australia 232,386[11]
Singapore 175,000[12]
Italy 167,859[13]
Hong Kong 130,810[14]
Spain 115,362[15]
Taiwan 108,520[16]
South Korea 63,464[17]
New Zealand 40,347[18]
Bahrain 40,000[19]
Israel 31,000[20]
Brazil 29,578 (2020)[21]
Papua New Guinea 25,000[22]
Netherlands 20,937[23]
Germany 20,589[24]
Thailand 17,574[25]
Macau14,544[26]
Sweden 13,000[27]
Ireland 12,791[28]
Austria 12,474[29]
Norway 12,262[30]
China 12,254[31]
Switzerland 10,000[32]
Kazakhstan 7,000[33]
Palau 7,000[34]
Greece 6,500[35]
Finland 5,665[36]
Turkey 5,500[37]
Russia5,000[38]
Indonesia 4,800[39]
Nigeria 4,500[40]
Egypt 4,178
Cayman Islands 4,119[41]
Languages
 Primarily Filipino, English, and other languages of the Philippines
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism[42]
Minority others are:
ProtestantismIslamBuddhismHinduismSikhismMga Saksi ni JehovaIglesia ni
CristoMembers Church of God InternationalPhilippine traditional and folk religionsAtheism
Related ethnic groups
Austronesian peoples, Native Indonesian
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino)[43] are the people who are native to or citizens of the
country of the Philippines. Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups.
Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own
language, identity, culture and history.
The name Filipino was derived from the term las Islas Filipinas ("the Philippine
Islands"),[44] the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican
priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honour of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II).[45]

During the Spanish colonial period, natives of the Philippine islands were usually known
by the generic terms indio ("Indian") or indigenta ("indigents").[46] However, during the early
Spanish colonial period the term Filipinos or Philipinos was sometimes used by Spanish writers
to distinguish the indio natives of the Philippine archipelago from the indios of the Spanish
colonies in other parts of the world.[45] Such use was inconsistent however, with "indio"
remaining more common.[47] The term Indio Filipino appears as a term of self-identification
beginning in the 18th century.[45]

In 1955, Agnes Newton Keith wrote that a 19th century edict prohibited the use of the
word "Filipino" to refer to indios. This reflected popular belief, although no such edict has been
found.[45] The idea that the term Filipino was not used to refer to indios until the 19th century
has also been mentioned by historians such as Salah Jubair[48] and Renato Constantino.[49]
However, in a 1994 publication the historian William Henry Scott identified instances in Spanish
writing where "Filipino" did refer to "indio" natives.[47] Instances of such usage include the
Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604) of Pedro Chirino, in which he wrote chapters entitled "Of
the civilities, terms of courtesy, and good breeding among the Filipinos" (Chapter XVI), "Of the
Letters of the Filipinos" (Chapter XVII), "Concerning the false heathen religion, idolatries, and
superstitions of the Filipinos" (Chapter XXI), "Of marriages, dowries, and divorces among the
Filipinos" (Chapter XXX),[50] while also using the term "Filipino" to refer unequivocally to the
non-Spaniard natives of the archipelago like in the following sentence: