PH population to reach 108.7M by mid-2020

By Franz Lewin Embudo

Feb 15, 2020 12:02 am

THE Philippines’ population will reach 108.7 million in mid-2020 although its growth slowed down in the last half of the decade based on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) said on Friday.

Popcom said the Philippines’ population growth declined by 0.21 percentage points (ppt) to 1.52 percent from the previous 1.73 percent between 2010 and 2015.

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