MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ total population has reached 109 million as of May 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte said in a proclamation.
The President issued Proclamation No. 1179 declaring the country’s population at 109,035,343 as of May 1, 2020, citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) census.
Duterte signed the proclamation on Tuesday, July 6, but its copy was only released to the media on Wednesday.
Last year, the President declared the month of May as the “National Census Month” as the government prepared for the conduct of the 2020 census.
READ: May declared ‘National Census Month’ as gov’t prepares for 2020 census
But because of t…
Keep on reading: Growing, growing, growing! PH population surges to 109 million