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• Population density


  Population divided by Area
• Optimum Population


  Theoretical situation where the number of resources match the population of an area
• Calculating natural increase of population

  Birth Rate - Death Rate
• First stage in demographic transition model


  • Birth rate high, death rate high and fluctuating, total population low and constant
• World Health Organization declared as the decade of healthy aging


  2021-2030
• LIZA GRACE S. BERSALES is the Director of the Population Commission in the Philippines as of January 13, 2023
• Republic Act 10354


  The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012
• Climate type with highest population


  • Areas with constantly high temperatures and little rainfall
• The fertility rate in the Philippines is 2.8
• 55% of women are using some method of contraception
• An estimated 100M to 400M girls and women worldwide have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, a reproductive health and human rights violation that has devastating short and long term impacts
• Pregnancy


  Leading cause of death for young women ages 15-19 worldwide, with complications of childbirth and unsafe abortion being the major factor
• Gonorrhea


  Common sexually transmitted disease
• Human Development Index


  Measures a nation's health, education and living standards
• Step Migration


  A series of shorter less extreme migration from a person's place of origin to final destination
• RA 7160


  A Republic act signed by Pres. Gloria Arroyo in 2004 that declares the state values the dignity of women and children and guaranteed full respect of human rights
• Sexually Transmitted Infection


  Any infection that maybe acquired or passed on through sexual contact, use of IV, child birth and breastfeeding
• Risa Hontiveros is the Senate Committee on women, children family relations, and gender equality chairperson
• World Contraception Day celebrated


  September 26
• International Youth Day celebrated


  August 12
• National Family Week celebrated

  September
• World Population Day celebrated

  July 11
• Executive Order 141


  Executive order that consider Teenage Pregnancy as an Urgent National Priority
• The updated Projected Mid-Year population for the Philippines by July 1, 2025 based on the 2015 POPCEN Results : 2020-2025 is 115,377,992
• Gender Development Index (GDI)


  Used to assess the well-being of women, compares the levels of indicators for female to those of males within a country
• Commission on Population (POPCOM)


  Central policymaking, Planning, coordinating and monitoring body of the population program
• The world population in 2023 is 8 Billion
• Components of Population Growth

  • Birth
  • Death
  • Migration
• From 2010-2019 new HIV cases in the Philippines grew by 203% whereas cases worldwide fell at least 18%. UNAIDS has counted the HIV AIDS situation in the Philippines as the fastest growing epidemic in the world
• 80 percent of women aged 25-49 begin sexual activity before age 18. The median age for first marriage for women is 22.5 years, more than a year older than the median age of first sexual intercourse. Women in the urban areas married 1.5 years later than their counterparts in rural areas, which is 23.3 versus 21.8 years. In the Philippines 15% of women aged 25-49 were married by aged 18 and about 1-3 were married by aged 20. Filipino women aged 25-49 initiate sexual intercourse at the median age of 21.2 years
• Executive Order No. 123


  Attached POPCOM to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), as the planning and coordinating agency in 1986
• Joseph Ejercito Estrada


  Philippine President who reformulated the Philippine Population Management Program with Responsible Parenthood as its lynchpin in 1999
• President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 188 attaching POPCOM to the Department of Health


  March 24, 2003
• Presidential Decree 79

  A presidential Decree signed directing public and private sectors to undertake a National Family Planning Program which respects the religious beliefs and values of individuals