Wazzup Pilipinas!
Metro Manila’s largest component LGU, Quezon City, will still be the Philippines’ most populous city by 2020. This is according to an analysis conducted by global property website Lamudi Philippines (www.lamudi.com.ph) using the annual average population growth rate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority in 2010.
Interestingly, the roster of the top 10 most populous Philippine cities in 2010 will be quite different with that predicted for 2020. For instance, the City of Manila will be overtaken by Caloocan and Davao by 2020. These two cities’ populations are growing rapidly and are predicted to surge to 1.88 and 1.83 million, respectively, while Manila’s is predicted to increase to 1.72 million. According to the data from the PSA, these three cities’ populations grow on average 2.37, 2.36, and 0.44 percent per year, respectively.
In addition, by 2020 there will be seven Philippine cities projected to have populations of more than 1 million, and five of the top 10 are cities outside Metro Manila (Davao, Zamboanga, Cebu, Antipolo, and Dasmariñas). Interestingly, by 2020, Dasmariñas, whose population grows on average 5.4 percent per year, will have more people than Taguig and Pasig, Metro Manila’s seventh and ninth most populated cities, respectively, in 2010.
By 2020, Dasmariñas population will grow to 976,146 (seventh), compared to Taguig’s and Pasig’s 958,962 and 887,959, respectively.
Furthermore, the populations of Zamboanga, Cebu, and Antipolo are predicted to breach the 1 million mark by 2020, which put them at fifth, sixth, and seventh positions.
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
