THE country's population growth rate has slowed down even as its aging population grew by 5 percent, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) said on Friday.

The commission also noted what it calls population momentum, where the number of Filipinos is still on the rise owing to the fact that the children under the population pyramid are growing and also giving birth.

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