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Philippine Demographics

The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country, with a population of over 85 million as of 2005. Roughly two-thirds reside on the island of Luzon. Manila, the capital, is the eleventh most populous metropolitan area in the world. The literacy rate was 92.5% in 2003, and about equal for males and females. Life expectancy is 69.91 years, with 72.28 years for females and 66.44 years for males. Population growth per year is about 1.92%, with 26.3 births per 1,000 people. In the 100 years since the 1903 Census, the population has grown by a factor of eleven. This represents a much faster rate of growth than other countries in the region

The majority of the people in the Philippines are of Austronesian descent who migrated from Formosa during the Iron Age. The largest of these groups are the Visayan, Tagalog, Ilocano, Bicolano, Moro, and the Kapampangan. About 8% of all Filipinos are tribal peoples.

More than 180 languages and dialects are spoken in the archipelago, almost all of them belonging to the Borneo-Philippines group of the Malayo-Polynesian language branch of the Austronesian language family.

In the 1987 Constitution, Filipino and English are both the official languages. Many Filipinos understand, write and speak English, Filipino and their respective regional languages.

Filipino is the de facto standardized version of Tagalog and one of the nation's official languages. English, the other official language, is widely used as a lingua franca throughout the country.

According to the 2000 Census, 81.04% of all Filipinos are Roman Catholics, 5.06% are adherents of Islam, and 2.82% are Born-again Christians. The remaining 11.08% include the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ - 2.3%), Philippine Independent Church (2%), Mormon (.5%), as well as those of other religions, such as Buddhism (3%) and Hinduism.