NATIONAL HEALTH

SITUATION OF THE
PHILIPPINES
POPULATION OF THE
PHILIPPINES
Increases in Philippines population
Philippines ended 2018 with a population of 106,651,922 people, which represents
an increasea of 1,731,922 people compared to 2017.
Philippines ranks No. 13 among196 countries which published this information in
countryeconomy.com.
The male population is greater, with 53,601,488 men, representing 50.26% of the
total, compared to 53,050,434 or 50.26% women.
Philippines has a high population density, with 356 people per square km and it was
in position 172th in our ranking of density population in 2018
POPULATION PYRAMID
FERTILITY RATE
Rural women have more children than urban women.-
Uneducated women also have more children than those
who are with college education.
There are 22 deaths per 1000 live birth 2018
BIRTHS IN THE PHILIPPINES, 2018

In 2018, a total of 1,668,120 live births were registered, which is equivalent to a

crude birth rate (CBR) of 15.8 or 16 births per thousand population.
1,668,120 LIVE BIRTHS WERE REGISTERED

More males born than females sex ratio 109 male =100 female
Highest occurrence of births in NCR
Most number of births in September
Nine in ten birth deliveries are medically attended
More than half of babies born to unwed mothers
Majority of babies born to mothers aged 20-24 years old 
LIFE EXPECTANCY
71.7 years(life expectancy at birth, both sexes combined)
75.9 years(life expectancy at birth, females)
67.7 years(life expectancy at birth, males)
INFANT MORTALITY RATE AND DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OLD IN THE
PHILIPPINES 2018

 INFANT MORTALITY 22.5(infant deaths per 1,000 live births)

 DEATHS UNDER AGE 5 27.35(per 1,000 live births)
10 LEADING CAUSES OF
DEATH 2018
DEATHS