Declaring as Official the 2007 Population Count of the Philippines by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay

April 16, 2008

PROCLAMATION NO. 1489

DECLARING AS OFFICIAL THE 2007 POPULATION COUNT OF THE PHILIPPINES BY PROVINCE, CITY, MUNICIPALITY AND BARANGAY AS OBTAINED FROM THE 2007 CENSUS OF POPULATION CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE

WHEREAS, Section 2 (a) of Commonwealth Act No. 591, approved on August 19, 1940, authorized the Bureau of the Census and Statistics (now the National Statistics Office or NSO) to collect by enumeration, sampling or other methods, statistics and other information concerning population and to conduct, for statistical purposes, investigations and studies of social and economic conditions in the country, among others:

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 121, issued on January 30, 1987, declared that the NSO shall be the major statistical agency responsible for generating general-purpose statistics and for undertaking such censuses and surveys as may be designated by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB); IEHTaA

WHEREAS, Presidential Proclamation No. 1346 "Declaring August 2007 as National Census Month" enjoined all departments and other government agencies including government-owned or controlled corporations, as well as local government units to implement and execute operational plans for the 2007 Census of Population (POPCEN 2007), directives and orders of the NSCB, which is designated as the National Census Coordinating Board for POPCEN 2007, through NSO;

WHEREAS, pursuant to thereto, a census of population was conducted by the NSO in August to September 2007 with August 1, 2007 as reference date;

WHEREAS, under Section 8 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 72, the final population counts as determined from the processed census returns shall be considered as official for all purposes only upon proclamation by the President;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim the results of the 2007 Census of Population placing the total population of the Philippines as of August 1, 2007 at 88,574,614 persons as official for all purposes, including the population of each region, province, city, municipality and barangay, as shown in 2007 Census of Population by Province, City/Municipality and Barangay, which is hereby marked as Annex "A" and made an integral part hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 16th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eight.