Country Overview Ethnic Groupds include:

Pearl Of the Orient – another term for the Hiligaynon or Ilongg

Philippines, Surigaonon
Pacific Ring of Fire – melting pot of the Asia, it Waray
is an area which is susceptible to disasters like Ilocano
earthquakes and typhoons. Cebuano
The Philippines is the third most disaster Kapampangan
prone country in the world. pangasinense
Why it is important to know that Philippines is bicolano
in the Pacific ring of fire? tagalog
- to evade further problems and complications
of the incidence. (Philippines Disaster The philippines has 122 cities 1512
Manaagement Refenrence Handbook of 2015) municipalities and 42 026 barrangays

The People According to the 2010 census the Phillipines

Filipino People are considered: has 92.34 million population
- Freedom Loving
- Fun Loving individuals Urbanization Problems:
Overcrowding
The philippines has one of the highest birth Enderprivileged quality of live
rates in Asia. Fast growing urban poor communities
There are 80 ethno – linguistic groups.
By 2030 the urban population is expected to
The Culture grow as much as 6% adding another 34.8
Influences that affects the Filipino Culture: million people
Spain
United states Population of Major Cities
Commonly ofw’s works: QC – 3 179 536
Doctors Manila – 1 652 171
Nurses Caloocan – 1 489 040
Accountants Davao City – 1 449 295
IT professionals Cebu City – 886 171
Engineers
Technicians Vulnerable Groups consists of :
Teachers Women
Students Children
Domestic Workers Elderly
People with disabilities
There are 11 million OFWS. Migrants

The Philippines ranks 94 out of 177 countries
with most corrupt perception index of 2013
with a score of 36 out of 100
Demographics
Ethnic Makeup
Malayo – Polynesian – Major Filipino origin
also known as Austronesian.
Women maintain higher completion rates
than males in all levels of education
Filipino Males leave the education system
because they need to work to help their
household income.
Poverty
2012 – 19.7%
2006 – 21%
4 million families are still poor
Ogukuooubes us cateciruzed as a kiwer
nuddke ubcine ciybtrt okacubg 114th out of
187 countries.

Human development Index – 0..654

The philippines ranked 77 out of 148

countries pertaining Gender Inequality Index

1/3 of the population is still in poverty

The pooerst people are:

Indigenou people
Smal scale farmers who receive farmland
through agrarian reform
Landless workers
Fishermen
People in upland areas
Women

Pooerst people considered are

People in Cordillerea high lands
And Mindanao Isaland

Environment
Borders
The Philippines is an island nation without
land borders it consists of over 7000 island of
which 2000 are only inhibited

Geography
Estimated land area is 300k square kilometer
with 1830 as water area.

It consists of 7107 islands

11 islands hold 95% of the total countrys land
area

Three Major Islands

Luzon
Visayas
Mindanao

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