Talk:Demographics of the Philippines

Problems with age structure and population pyramid
This edit, which made cosmetic changes to unsupported information about age structure in the infobox, caught my eye. I noted that the Age structure section of the infobox, which the edit modifies, does not specify a validity year. I did a quick comparison of the figures given there with the figures given in the Population pyramid of the article, which also do not give a validity year, and found that these two sets of figures in the article did not agree with one another.

The table in the Population pyramid section cites this source in support. The cite for that says, "Retrieved December 4, 2015.". The source itself is titled "2018 United Nations Demographics Yearbook", but gives no figures for the Philippines on the linked web page. Some exploring beginning at the cited web page leads to this page, a search page defaulting to Afghanistan from which it is possible to search for information about the Philippines. Searching there is a bit confusing but, by searching for the Philippines and the year 2015, I was able to see figures labeled 2019 as a "Source Year"; those figures did not agree with either of the two aforementioned sets of figures in the article.

Would it be possible to get this cleaned up a bit? Perhaps the two sets of figures in the article could be brought into agreement and the source of those figures might be cited in support. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:53, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Why is the demographic data so poor?
Why is the demographic data so poor?

Examples 1: Section "Population pyramid" says cohorts 0–4, 5-9 and 10-14 are all over 10 millions, so need on average over 2 million births per year. However, births "Year by year" never show over 1.8 million births per year.

Example 2: In the "Year by year" table, the total population grows over the last year clearly more than the natural change. However, Philippines is an emigration country, so population increase should be below the natural change.

BenF 213.127.112.179 (talk) 11:17, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Regarding example 1, it seems like the data is old and from the UN, not the Philippine government. It could use an update. --Glennznl (talk) 12:17, 3 January 2022 (UTC)