Republic of the Philippines QUICKSTAT

Philippine Statistics Authority

BULACAN
(Monthly Update of Most Requested Statistics)
As of March 2015

INDICATOR REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA

PRICE INDICES (2006=100) 2014 Feb 2015 Jan 2015 Feb 2014
Consumer Price Index 130.4 131.1 130.9 129.7
Inflation rate 2.0 1.1 1.2 2.1
Purchasing power of the peso (2006-2011) 0.77 0.76 0.76 0.77
PRIVATE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION (Floor area in square meter; value in P1,000) 2013 3rd Qtr 2014 2nd Qtr 2014 3rd Qtr 2013
Total number of buildings 4,388 1,398 1,841 919
Total floor area 770,731 195,267 325,406 168,265
Value 5,356,629 1,527,610 2,334,269 1,167,171
Residential (number) 3,185 1,136 1,511 672
Total floor area 405,517 115,891 236,709 87,180
Value 2,952,253 883,269 1,481,448 641,500
Nonresidential 524 95 126 96
Total floor area 344,670 61,103 84,597 76,115
Value 2,074,050 453,778 710,155 438,774
GEOGRAPHY (Source: Philippine Statistics Authority) 2014 2013 2012
Number of cities 3 3 3
Number of municipalities 21 21 21
Number of barangays 569 569 569
DEMOGRAPHY (Source: 2000 and 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) 2010 2007 2000
and 2007 Census of Population (POPCEN))
Total population 2,924,433 2,822,216 2,234,088
Urban 2,073,875 1,897,836 -
Rural 850,558 924,380 -
Male 1,465,829 1,417,219 1,116,830
Female 1,458,604 1,404,997 1,117,258
Annual growth rate (1990-2000, 2000-2007, 2000-2010) 2.73 3.27 4.02
Sex ratio (number of males for every 100 females) 100.5 100.9 100.0
Household population 2,919,370 2,816,007 2,230,778
Male 1,461,977 1,412,577 1,114,552
Female 1,457,393 1,403,430 1,116,226
Number of households 659,158 588,693 463,886
Average household size 4.43 4.78 4.81
Population density (square kilometer) 1,046 1,009 799
Median age 24.8 23.3 22.5
Dependency ratio 54.9 60.8 63.5
Young dependents 48.7 54.7 57.7
Old dependents 6.2 6.1 5.8
Proportion by age group
0- 4 10.4 11.5 12.7
0 - 14 31.4 34.0 35.3
15 - 64 64.6 62.2 61.1
18 and over 62.6 59.7 58.9
60 and over 6.6 5.8 5.5
65 and over 4.0 3.8 3.6
 Proportion of urban population 70.9 67.2 77.8
Proportion of persons with disabilities 1.3 n. a. 1.1

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DEMOGRAPHY (Source: 2000 and 2010 CPH and 2007 POPCEN) 2010 2007 2000
Marital status (Household population 10 years old and over)
Total 2,307,645 2,166,698 1,677,730
Single 953,429 932,862 691,885
Married 1,054,453 969,722 811,715
Widowed 98,785 93,416 67,337
Divorced/Separated 41,503 37,701 21,337
Common-Law/Live-in 155,821 122,384 72,622
Unknown/Not Stated 3,654 10,613 12,834
Elderly population (60 years old and over) 2010 2007 2000
Both sexes 191,752 164,078 123,103
Male 81,870 69,868 53,084
Female 109,882 94,210 70,019
Disabled persons by type of disability 2007 2000 1995
Total - 24,284 28,209
Total blindness - 615 402
Partial blindness - 1,477 1,890
Low vision - 10,737 15,417
Total deafness - 785 328
Partial deafness - 653 964
Hard of hearing - 805 343
Oral defect - 1,054 805
Loss of one or both arms/hands - 866 169
Loss of one or both legs/feet - 1,084 291
Quadriplegic - 1,464 -
Mentally retarded - 2,009 1,536
Mentally ill - 2,119 867
Multiple impairment - 616 -
Muteness - - 687
Deafness/Muteness - - -
Others - - 4,510
With at least one type of functional disability 2010 Both sexes Male Female
(Household population five years old and over) 75,827 34,242 41,585
Difficulty in seeing, even if wearing eyeglasses 55,329 23,847 31,482
Difficulty in hearing, even if using a hearing aid 13,675 6,004 7,671
Difficulty in walking or climbing steps 18,024 8,143 9,881
Difficulty in remembering or concentrating 8,587 3,825 4,762
Difficulty in self-caring (bathing or dressing) 7,357 3,390 3,967
Difficulty in communicating 8,586 4,489 4,097
Highest educational attainment (Household population by 5 years old and over) 2010 2007 2000
Both sexes 2,615,086 2,492,947 1,946,048
No grade completed 61,966 115,837 62,371
Pre-school 73,690 59,403 49,015
Elementary 857,901 852,265 787,280
1st-4th Grade - 368,861 335,929
5th-6th Grade - 106,204 451,351
Graduate - 377,200 -
High school 957,177 883,360 601,969
Undergraduate - 330,632 302,006
Graduate - 552,728 299,963
Post-secondary 109,406 105,939 91,637
Undergraduate - 7,907 34,401
Graduate - 98,032 57,236
 College undergraduate 256,244 210,461 209,540
Academic degree holder 291,991 228,384 98,732
Post-baccalaureate 4,248 1,769 3,925
Not stated 2,463 35,529 41,579

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DEMOGRAPHY (Source: 2000 and 2010 CPH and 2007 POPCEN) 2010 2007 2000
Overseas workers (Highest educational attainment 10 years old and over)
Both sexes 67,347 66,986 35,878
No grade completed 45 17 159
Pre-school 7 10 46
Elementary 4,227 3,265 6,933
1st-4th Grade 756 483 1,745
5th-6th Grade 5661
277 -
5th-7th Grade - - 5,188
Graduate 2,905 2,505 -
High school 18,195 18,592 11,274
Undergraduate 3,009 2,476 4,413
Graduate 15,186 16,116 6,861
Post-secondary 9,035 10,316 4,979
Undergraduate 543 493 1,799
Graduate 8,492 9,823 318
College undergraduate 10,100 9,616 7,107
Academic degree holder 25,491 23,572 4,507
Post-baccalaureate 212 72 96
Not stated 35 1,526 777
VITAL STATISTICS (Source: Vital Statistics Report) 2005 2004 2003
Births (based on civil registration; not adjusted for underregistration) 51,008 50,956 50,122
Male 26,571 26,587 26,212
Female 24,437 24,369 23,910
Marriages (based on civil registration; not adjusted for underregistration) 17,987 18,663 20,272
Deaths (based on civil registration; not adjusted for underregistration) 13,289 12,302 11,868
Male 7,674 7,098 6,850
Female 5,615 5,204 5,018
2010-2015 2005-2010 2000-2005
Crude birtha (per thousand population) 21.24 22.74 24.25
Crude death (per thousand population)
a
5.79 5.92 6.33
Crude rate of natural increase (per thousand population) 15.45 16.82 17.92
Total fertility ratea (number of children per woman) 2.56 2.75 2.95
Life expectancy at birth (in years; medium assumption)
a

Male 69.29 68.09 66.59

Female 75.78 74.58 73.38
EDUCATION (Sources: 2000 CPH/1994 Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey) 2000 1994 1990
Literate (simple literacy in thousands) 1,608 1,193 1,102
Literacy rate (simple literacy) 95.87 97.60 98.57
AGRICULTURE (Source: 2002 Census of Agriculture Vol. I) 2002 1991 1980
Number of farms by land use 2/
46,183 48,451 39,394
Area of farms by land use (in hectares) 63,134 69,242 73,465
Arable lands
Land planted to temporary crops 45,672 56,969 63,986
Lands lying idle 3/ 727 743 987
 Land planted to permanent crops 11,803 9,302 3,493
Land under permanent meadows and pasture 395 249 2,135
Lands covered with forest growth 137 45 941
All other lands 4/ 4,200 1,934 1,923

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AGRICULTURE (Source: Bureau of Agricultural Statistics) 2011 2010 2009

Top five agricultural crops
Palay
Area (hectares) - - -
Production (metric tons) 227,607 298,376 300,277
Corn
Area (hectares) - - -
Production (metric tons) 2,267 2,532 1,895
Coconut
Area (hectares) - - -
Production (metric tons) 569 563 558
Mango
Area (hectares) - - -
Production (metric tons) 7,945 10,238 4,010
Banana
Area (hectares) - - -
Production (metric tons) 18,253 18,124 17,615
Top five livestock 2011 2010 2009
Carabao 10,780 5,590 6,491
Cattle 15,937 6,197 8,054
Chicken 5,722,945 5,359,819 6,367,796
Duck 378,937 324,383 279,989
Goat 29,114 22,587 16,156
INTERNAL REVENUE ALLOTMENT (Source: Department of Budget and Management) 2011 2010 2009
IRA (million pesos) 1,735.3 1,610.0 1,515.2
Rank 3 3 3
Percentage of IRA to total financial resources 62.1 61.1 61.6
Rank 53 56 69
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (Source: National Statistical Coordination Board) 2009 2006 2003
Human development index 5/ 0.699 0.680 0.665
Rank - - -
BANKS (Source: Central Bank of the Philippines) 2011 2010 2009
Total number of banks 264 257 248
Total bank deposits (millions) 69,666 65,715 58,929
PAWNSHOP (Source: Central Bank of the Philippines) 2011 2010 2009
Total number of pawnshops 720 664 664
REGISTERED VOTERS (Source: Commission on Elections) 2010 2009 2008
Number of registered voters 1,432,503 1,479,765 1,519,817
Rank 7 4 4

r-revised p-preliminary
a/
2000 Census-Based National, Regional and Provincial Projections.
1/
5th-6th Grade Level only.
2/
A farm was counted once under "ALL CLASSES" but may be counted under each of the reported land utilization.
3/
Included home lot.
4/
Included lands temporarily fallowed and lands under temporary meadows/pastures.
5/
This attempts to measure the complete concept of human development by tracking the progress of three selected aspects of human life.
Note: The latest provincial figures on Business and Industry, Minimum Basic Needs Indicators, and Family Income and Expenditure
can be found in the December 2008 Provincial Quickstat.

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