About one in every four household population has Tagalog as ethnicity

1. About one in every four (26.0%) of the 108.67 million household population in 2020 reported Tagalog as their ethnicity. Other major ethnicities were Bisaya/Binisaya (14.3%), Ilocano and Cebuano (8.0% each), Ilonggo (7.9%), Bikol/Bicol (6.5%), Waray (3.8%), Kapampangan (3.0%), and Maguindanao and Pangasinan (1.9% each). (Figure 1 and Table 1)

Bicol is the most homogenous region in terms of ethnicity

2. Among the 17 regions, Region V-Bicol Region was the most homogenous in terms of ethnicity, as almost eight out of 10 residents in the region (78.8%) reported themselves having Bicol ethnicity. Next was Region IV-A-CALABARZON with 74.4 percent Tagalogs. Tagalog was also the top ethnicity in Region III-Central Luzon (52.4%) and MIMAROPA Region (42.2%). (Table 2)
    

3. In the other regions in Luzon, Ilocano was the most common ethnicity in Region II-Cagayan Valley (61.8%), Region I-Ilocos Region (58.3%), and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) (22.1%). (Table 2)
    

4. Moreover, Ilonggo was the most common ethnicity in Region VI-Western Visayas (67.6%) and Region XII-SOCCSKSARGEN (32.0%), Cebuano in Central Visayas (61.4%), and Waray in Region VIII-Eastern Visayas (64.2%). (Table 2)
    

5. In the remaining regions in Mindanao, Bisaya/Binisaya was the top ethnicity in Region XI-Davao Region (48.8%), Region X-Northern Mindanao (46.5%), Region IX-Zamboanga Peninsula (41.7%), and Region XIII-Caraga (39.1%). In Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the top three ethnicities were Maguindanao (26.4%), Tausog/Tausug (23.3%), and Maranao (22.7%). (Table 2)

Majority of the Household Population are Non-Indigenous Peoples

6. Among the 108.67 million household population, 93.09 million or 85.7 percent were classified as non-Indigenous Peoples (non-IPs). The remaining 15.56 million household population were IPs identified by National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) with 8.21 million (7.6%), Muslim tribes identified by National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) with 5.48 million (5.0%), IPs and Muslim tribes identified by both NCIP and NCMF with 1.63 million persons (1.5%), and foreign ethnicities with 230,917 persons (0.2%). (Figure 2)

Indigenous Peoples comprise 9.1 percent of the Philippine household population

7. In 2020, IPs identified by NCIP comprised 9.84 million or 9.1 percent of the 108.67 million household population. The top 10 IP groups in the Philippines accounted for about 48.3 percent of the total IPs. Subanens/Subanons ranked first with 758,499 persons (7.7%), followed by Manobos with 644,904 persons (6.6%), and Mandayas with 523,475 persons (5.3%). (Table 3)

Muslim tribes make up 6.5 percent of the Philippine household population

8. Muslim tribes identified by NCMF, including the tribes that were also identified as IPs by the NCIP, accounted for 7.11 million or 6.5 percent of the 108.67 million household population in 2020. Among Muslim tribes, Maguindanao accounted for 2.02 million persons (28.4%). They were followed by the Maranao with 1.80 million persons (25.3%), Tausog/Tausug with 1.62 million persons (22.7%), Sama/Samal with 398,666 persons (5.6%), Iranun/Iraynun with 333,454 (4.7%), and Yakan with 282,715 persons (4.0%). The remaining Muslim tribes accounted for less than 2.0 percent each. (Table 4)

Two fifths of the household population with foreign ethnicity are of Chinese descent

9. Of the 108.67 million household population, 230,917 persons or 0.2 percent were reported to have foreign ethnicity. The top 10 foreign ethnicities accounted for 189,023 or 81.9 percent of the foreign ethnicity. Chinese ranked first with 102,577 persons (44.4%), followed by those with Indian ethnicity with 23,464 persons (10.2%), American ethnicity with 13,946 persons (6.0%), and Swiss ethnicity with 13,777 persons (6.0%). (Table 5)

The statistics presented in this Press Release were based on the information provided by the respondent pertaining to all members of the household.

The categories of ethnicity were provided by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos.

In the 2020 CPH, data on the ethnicity of all household members were collected by asking the respondent, “What is _____'s ethnicity by descent/blood relation/consanguinity?”.