Demographyofthephilippines

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In 2009 the Philippines have become the world’s 12th most populated country, with their population over 92 millions. Manila is the capital of The Philippines, is the eleventh most populous metropolitan area in the world. 11% of the Philippines are living abroad because of their jobs. Half of the population is living on the biggest island of the Philippines, and it’s called Luzon. The expected life expectancy is 71, 09 years, with 74, 15 for women and 68, 17 for men. The Population growth rate between 1995 and 2000 was 3.21%, but for the years 2005-2010, it will be only 1.95%. The Philippines belongs to several groups, which is grouped within the Malay or the [|Malayo-Polynesian] speaking people, who speak [|Austronesia languages]. These groups are called [|Asian] ethnic groups. [|Taiwa][|nese aborigines] is the population that the Philippines is originated from, and they migrated to the Philippines for thousand years ago from Taiwanese and brought with them knowledge of agriculture and ocean-sailing technology. Different people of different races and nationalities got marry with various indigenous ethnics groups. Their descendants are known as Mestizos. The Philippines have many different languages and it says is it over 90 languages on the island. The most important language is called Filipino (Philippines official language), Ilocano, Bicol, and Cebuano. Some of the language has a source of Spanish, and that is because the Philippines were in a colony with Spain. The Philippines is speaking English besides the Filipino, but it is estimated that less than a third of the population understands English. Besides the Filipino's English language official, but it is estimated that less than a third of the population understands English. This is about to change now because the young people today receive education that includes English. The reason why English is one of two official languages is because they were in colony with USA from 1898 and got realized in 1944-1945. Most of the languages are very different. If people from different provinces have some geographic distance, the language is so different that you cannot understand each other. To communicate you have to use either Filipino or English.

Most of the inhabitants of the Philippines are Christian, and when significant Roman Catholics. This is the official religion and consists of 12 Catholic dioceses and 30 dioceses. In addition to Christians is also some Muslims and tribal religions. Muslims hold mainly on Mindanao in the south, and there have been some riots and fights as they strive for independence. This is how we distributed the religion in the Philippines.