TRIVIA

Top Ten Most Populous Cities*/Municipalities:

Region XI - Davao, 2015 (excluding Davao City)
Rank City/Municipality Province Population
1 City of Tagum Davao del Norte 259,444
2 City of Panabo Davao del Norte 184,599
3 City of Digos Davao del Sur 169,393
4 City of Mati Davao Oriental 141,141
5 Santo Tomas Davao del Norte 118,750
6 Malita Davao Occidental 117,746
7 Island Garden City of Samal Davao del Norte 104,123
8 Monkayo Compostela Valley 94,908
9 Santa Cruz Davao del Sur 90,987
10 Compostela Compostela Valley 87,474
 Ten Least Populous Cities*/Municipalities:
Region XI - Davao, 2015 (excluding Davao City)
Rank City/Municipality Province Population
1 Boston Davao Oriental 13.535
2 Sarangani Davao Occidental 24,039
3 Tarragona Davao Oriental 26,225
4 Padada Davao del Sur 26,587
5 San Isidro Davao del Norte 26,651
6 Talaingod Davao del Norte 27,482
7 Braulio E. Dujali Davao del Norte 30,104
8 Sulop Davao del Sur 33,613
9 San Isidro Davao Oriental 36,032
10 Mawab Compostela Valley 37,065
 Population by Province/Highly Urbanized City: Region XI - Davao
(Based on the 2000, 2010, and 2015 Censuses)
Population (in thousands)
Province/Highly Urbanized City
2000 2010 2015
Compostela Valley 580 687 736
Davao del Norte 744 946 1,016
Davao del Sur (excluding Davao City) 504 575 633
Davao City 1,147 1,449 1,633
Davao Occidental 255 294 316
Davao Oriental 446 518 559
Mindanao 25,537,691

Philippines 117,394,520

7,700, 110, 994 and

World counting
Top 10 Most Populated Countries in the World (2019)
Rank Country Population Year
1. China 1,380,914,176 2019 (Est.)
2. India 1,311,559,168 2019 (Est.)
3. United States of America 333,928,672 2019 (Est.)
4. Indonesia 265,253,184 2019 (Est.)
5. Brazil 220,632,960 2019 (Est.)
6. Pakistan 210,797,840 2019 (Est.)
7. Nigeria 202,670,592 2019 (Est.)
8. Bangladesh 180,203,952 2019 (Est.)
9. Russia 133,026,408 2019 (Est.)
10. Japan 125,853,032 2019 (Est.)
HOW ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES?
WHICH RANK IS OUR COUNTRY?
GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY
AND
GLOBAL MIGRATION
 WHY IS POPULATION GROWTH A
PROBLEM?
• We have seen exponential growth in the world’s population in
the past 200 years.
• The more people on earth the more resources are required.
• Our earth has a limited carrying capacity meaning it can only
sustain so many people before its natural systems start to fall
apart.
 WHY IS POPULATION GROWTH A
PROBLEM? (CONTI…)
• Many scientists believe that we have already exceeded the earth’s carrying
capacity:
- mass species extinction
- global climate change
- air quality
Getting world population under
- Desertification
control is one part of the solution
- loss of fish. to our environmental problems.
 WHY IS IT USUALLY THE POORER COUNTRIES
WHO HAVE SO MANY KIDS AND HENCE HIGH
POPULATION GROWTH?

• Need for large families (kids need to work)

• High infant mortality (kids might die so better have lots)
• Low status of women – husbands can have their way = kids
• Lack of contraception and education about contraception
• Religious opposition to contraception
• Lack of pension plans for old people (kids become the pension plan)
 POPULATION CHANGE!
• Immigration: People moving in to another country
• Emigration: People moving away from their home country.
*If you were to move to England, you would be emigrating
from Canada and immigrating into England.
Why are people moving all over the place?
These are called Push-Pull Factors.
 GLOBAL
DEMOGRAPHY
Demography – a complex discipline that
requires the integration of various social
scientific data.
 D AV I D E . B L O O M
AND
D AV I D C A N N I N G
• In the past 5O years, the world accelerated its
transition out of long-term demographic stability.
• In most countries, this growth led to falling fertility
rates. Although fertility has fallen, the population
continues to increase because of population
momentum.
• In the meantime, demographic change has created a
‘bulge’ generation.
• Population growth has been the subject of great
debate among economists and demographers.
• The experiences of East Asia, Ireland, Sub-Saharan
Africa all serve evidence of the effect of
demographic change on economic growth.
• Both internal migration and international
migration complicate this picture.
• The overall implication of population growth
for policy lie in the imperative for
investments in health and education and
for sound policies related to labour, trade
and retirement.
• Understanding future trends is essential for
the development of good policy.
• Demographic projections can be quite
reliable, but huge uncertainties - in the
realms of health, changes in human life
span, scientific advances, migration, global
warming and wars .
 ECONOMY AND POPULATION

Rural families view multiple children and large kinship networks as critical
investments. Urban families may not have the same kinship network anymore
because couple live on theor own, or because they move out of the farmlands.
The 1980 United Nations report on urban and rural population growth states that
85 percent of the world rural population in 1975 and or projected to contain 90
percent by the end of the 20th century.
International migration today 191 million people live in countries other than
their own, and the United Nations projects that 2.2 million will move from the
developing world to the First World countries.
 THE “PERILS” OF
OVERPOPULATION
Urbanization and industrialization as indicators of a developing society, but disagree on
the role of population growth or decline in modernization.
By limiting the population, vital resources could be used for economic progress and not
be “diverted” and “wasted” to feeding more mouths.
Politics determine “birth control” programs. Developed countries justify their support for
population control in developing countries by depicting the latter as conservative
societies.
 • Today’s global population has
reached 7.4 billion, and it is
estimated to increase to 9.5 billion
in 2050, then 11.2 billion by 2100.
P O P U L AT I O N G R O W T H • Ninety-five percent of this
AND
FOOD SECURITY population growth will happen in
the developing countries.
Developed countries population
will remain steady in general, but
declining in some of the most
advanced countries.
 GLOBAL MIGRATION

Migration - crossing the boundary of a political

or administrative unit for a certain minimum
period.
 • Internal Migration - It refers to move
from one area (a province, district or
municipality to another within one
country.
Example. Movements of Uigar ‘national
2 TYPES OF MIGRATION minority’ people from the western
provinces of China to cities in the east.
• International Migration - It means
crossing the frontiers which separate one
of the world’s approximately 2 states
from another.
Example. Between the southern
Philippines and Sabah in Malaysia

O N E WA Y I N W H I C H S T A T E S S E E K T O I M P R O V E
C O N T R O L I S B Y D I V I D I N G U P I N T E R N AT I O N A L
M I G R A N T S I N T O C AT E G O R I E S .
1. Temporary labour migrants (also known as guest-workers:
men and women who migrate for a limited period
e.g. Japan and Germany will need workers from demographically
young countries like Philippines.
2. Highly skilled and business migrants: people with
qualifications as managers executives, professionals, technicians or
similar, who move within the internal labour markets of transitional
corporations and international organization.
e.g. Working populations in countries like the United States move to
more skilled careers, their economies will require migrants to work
jobs that their local workers are beginning to reject.
3. Irregular migrants (also known as undocumented or illegal
migrants: people who enter a country, usually in search of
employment, without the necessary documents and permits.
• 4. Refugees: according to the 1951 Convention relating to the
status of refugees, a refugee is a person residing outside his or
her country of nationality, who is unable or unwilling to return
because of a ‘well-founded fear to persecution on account of
race, religion, nationality, membership on a particular social
group, or politician opinion’.
• 5. Asylum-seekers: people who move across borders in search
of protection, but who may not fulfill the strict criteria laid
down by the 1951 Convention.
• 6. Family members (also known as family reunion or
family reunification migrants: migration to join people who
have already entered an immigration country under one of the
above categories.
e.g. Many countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and
most European Union member states recognize in principle the
right to family reunion for legal immigrants.
• 7. Return migrants: people who return to their countries of
origin after a period in another country.
 CAUSE OF MIGRATION

The disparity in levels of income, employment and

social well-being between differing areas.
Differences in demographic patterns with regard to
fertility, mortality, age-structure and labour force
growth are also important.
 • mass expulsions of foreign workers
M I G R AT I O N A S A
CHALLENGE TO THE (e.g., Nigeria, Libya, Malaysia
N AT I O N - S TAT E
• building fences and walls along
orders (e.g., South Africa, Israel,
The Schengen Agreement in Malaysia
Europe and the tightening of
border controls in the USA may
• severe punishments for illegal
have reduced irregular movements, entrants (e.g., corporal punishment
but they certainly have not stopped in Singapore; imprisonment or a
them altogether. bar on future admission in many
Several African and Asian countries
countries have carried out quite
draconian measures, such as
• sanctions against employers (e.g.,
South Africa, Japan and other
countries
 • Ninety percent of the value generated by migrant
workers remain in their host countries, they have sent
billions back to their home countries.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) observes than in
countries like the Philippines, remittance “do not have
a significant influence on other key items of
BENEFITS AND DETRIMENTS
OF THE SENDING consumption or investment such as spending on
COUNTRIES education and health care”. Remittance, therefore, may
help in lifting “household out of poverty … but not in
rebalancing growth, especially in the long run.
• Global migration is “siphoning qualified personnel,
[and] removing dynamic young workers, this process
is called “brain drain”.
• The loss of professionals in certain key roles, such as
doctor, has been detrimental to the migrants’ home
countries.
 • The United States Federal Bureau of
Investigation lists human trafficking as the
largest criminal activity worldwide.
• Human trafficking has been very
profitable, earning syndicates, smugglers,
THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING and corrupt state officials profits of as high
as $150 billion a year in 2014.
Governments, the private sector, and civil
society groups have worked together to
combat human trafficking, yet the results
remain uneven.
 • Migrants contribute significantly to a host
nation’s GDP, but their access to housing,
health care, and education is not easy.
• Democratic states assimilate immigrants
I N T E G R AT I O N and their children by granting them
citizenship and the rights that go with it
especially public education.
• Governments and private businesses have
made policy changes to address
integration problems, like using multiple
languages in state documents.