Significant drop in births in the Philippines due to the pandemic CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
THE Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) cited a significant drop in the number of births in 2020 with just 1,516,042 million registered in the country — the lowest number registered since 1986 when only 1,493,995 Filipinos were born — based on a preliminary report of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in June 2021.