Philippines Population

The Philippines long had higher fertility than most of its Southeast Asian neighbours, shaped in part by a strongly Catholic culture and a later embrace of family planning, though the rate has since fallen toward the regional average. The population stays young and continues to grow, and a vast diaspora of overseas Filipino workers sends home remittances that are central to the economy. That export of labour is itself a defining feature of the country's demographics.

Philippines is the world's 14th most populous country, home to about 117 million people in 2026. A country of South-Eastern Asia, its trajectory to 2100 is governed by how births, deaths and migration play out. It packs in roughly 392 people per square kilometre.

Philippines is projected to keep growing until about 2057, when its population peaks at roughly 135 million before a gradual decline sets in, leaving it near 115 million by 2100. It passed the 100 million mark around 2013.

The median age is set to climb from about 26 today to roughly 46 by 2100, while life expectancy, near 70 years, keeps rising. An older population gradually reshapes the labour force, pension systems and healthcare demand.

Fertility sits at about 1.89 births per woman, below the replacement level of roughly 2.1, so without migration the population would eventually shrink. Emigration adds a further drag, as departures outnumber arrivals year to year.

These figures follow the UN's medium variant, the most widely cited scenario. The low and high variants, driven mainly by differing fertility assumptions, fan out into a wide range by 2100, so treat each number as a central estimate rather than a precise forecast.