IT’S 2018, and the Commission on Population (PopCom) has promptly issued its latest population estimates. The Philippine population is expected to grow by 1.69 percent, or 1.8 million, by the end of 2018, according to PopCom Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez 3rd.

The 1.8-million estimated increase in population “means we will be adding 4,965 Filipinos per day, or 206 every hour, in 2018,” said Perez.

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