Persons with functional difficulty posted at 8.7 percent 1. Of the 97.60 million household population five years old and over, nearly nine in every 100 persons (8.7%) had at least one domain of functional difficulty, that is, any of the six functional domains of seeing, hearing, walking or climbing steps, remembering or concentrating, self-caring (washing all over or dressing) or communicating. (Figure 1 and Table 1)

As of 01 May 2020, the institutional population reached 366,202 persons, or 0.3 percent of the country’s total population of 109,035,343 persons. This figure is 39,386 persons or 9.7 percent lower than the 405,588 institutional population posted in 2015.

In 2020, 58.93 million or 54.0 percent of the total 109.03 million population of the Philippines lived in urban barangays. This represents an increase of 7.20 million persons from the 51.73 million urban residents in 2015. The rural population or those who lived in barangays classified as rural in 2020 comprised the remaining 50.10 million persons or 46.0 percent of the total population. (Tables 1 and A)