The City of Parañaque recorded a total of 686,313 household population in the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), of which 339,314 (49.4%) were males and 346,999 (50.6%) were females. (See Table 3)

By age group, 0 to 14 years of age registered a total number of 183,066 (26.7%). Boys comprised 51.6 percent or 94,435 while the remaining 48.4 percent or 88,631 were girls.

There were more women (50.7% or 237,589) than men (49.3% or 231,053) in the age group 15-64 years of age.

Women 65 years of age and over outnumbered the men. Women comprised 60.0 percent or 20,779 of the total 65 years and over population, while men comprised 40.0 percent or 13,826.  (See Figure 1)

Figure 1. Age-Sex Pyramid in the City of Parañaque: 2020

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

More females than males attain at most high school levels of education

In the 2020 CPH, the highest educational attainment was asked for all persons aged five years and over. The census revealed that in the City of Parañaque, 238,610 of the household population five years and over had reached or completed at most high school or secondary level for both the k-12 and old curriculum (old curriculum high school graduate: 135,077; old curriculum high school undergraduate: 33,251). As such, the 238,610 who had reached or completed at most high school were composed of 119,747 females and 118,863 males.

Similarly, 77,316 Females and 66,187 males of the household population five years and over in the City were college graduates during 2020. (See Table 4)

Literacy rate in Parañaque City is at 98.9 percent

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), of the 621,125 household population five years old and over in Parañaque City, 614,139 (98.9%) were literate. Similarly, of the 614,139 literate household population five years old and over in the City of Parañaque, 302,203 were male and 311,936 were female. As such, literacy rate of the city in 2020 was slightly higher among females (50.2%) than among males (48.7%) by 1.5 percent. (See Figure 2)

Figure 2. Literacy Rate of the Household Population Five Years Old and Over by Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020 (In Percent)

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

VITAL STATISTICS

More male births than female births were recorded in 2022

Based on the total number of registered live births by usual residence of mother from January to December 2022, more males than females were born in the City of Parañaque at 4,226 (52%) and 3,854 (48%), respectively. This constitutes to a sex ratio at birth of about 109 males per 100 females born in the city for the year 2022. (See Figure 3)

Figure 3. Percentage Distribution of Registered Livebirths by Usual Residence of Mother and Sex of the Child, City of Parañaque: 2022

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division

More male deaths than female deaths recorded

Figure 3 shows the age-sex structure of registered deaths in the City of Parañaque during 2022. It shows an inverted pyramid, with fewer deaths at the younger ages, except for children under one, and progressively increasing as people grow older. The number of male deaths (2, 195 or 54.9% share) was higher than female deaths (1,803 or 45.1% share) in 2022. The proportion of males who died was highest at the age of 60 to 69 years old (456 or 20.8% of male deaths) while for females, the largest was at the oldest age group, 85 years old and over (346 or 19.2% of female deaths). (See Figure 4 and Table 1)

Figure 4. Number of Registered Deaths by Age Group, Sex, and Place of Usual Residence, City of Parañaque: 2022

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division

Table 1. Number of Registered Deaths by Age Group, Sex, and Place of Usual Residence, City of Parañaque: 2022

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division

Single marital status both for male and female is the highest in 2020

In 2020, 176,334 (25.7%) for male and 167,697 (24.0%) for female were single from the total household population of 686,313 in Parañaque City. As such, this signifies a sex ratio at marital status of 107 single male per 100 single female. Similarly, a total of 99,444 (14.5%) male and 101,123 (15.7%) female from the household population of the city.were married during the year.

Among the marital statuses, divorced/ separated/ annulled was recorded as the lowest for both males and females at 0.7% and 1.4%, respectively. (See Figure 5) 

Figure 5. Household Population by Marital Status and Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division

Filipino with dual citizenship reaches 670 in 2020

As of 01 May 2020, there were 670 Filipinos with dual citizenship from the total household population of 686,313 in the City of Parañaque. As such, this constitutes to 402 (0.1%) of male and 268 (0.04%) of female from the 670 Filipinos with dual citizenship in the city. (See Figure 6) 

Figure 6. Percent Share of Household Population by Citizenship and Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

Number of persons with registered births reaches to 679,369

In terms of the birth registration status of the household population, there were 335,917 (48.9%) male and 343,452 (50%) female or a total of 679,369 persons with registered births in Parañaque City during 2020. As such, there were 102 females per 98 males for the sex ratio at registered births. 

Meanwhile, births not registered for both sexes of the household population reached 6,130 composed of 3,020 (0.4%) males and 3,110 (0.5%) females. (See Table 2 and Figure 7)

Table 2. Birth Registration Status of the Household Population by Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

Figure 7. Percentage Distribution of the Household Population by Birth Registration Status and Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

Table 3. Household Population by Age Group and Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

Table 4. Household Population Five Years Old and Over by Highest Educational Attainment and Sex, City of Parañaque: 2020

Sources: Philippine Statistics Authority, 2020 Census of Population and Housing

TECHNICAL NOTES

Household

A household is a social unit consisting of a person living alone or a group of persons who sleep in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement in the preparation and consumption of food.

In most cases, a household consists of persons who are related by kinship ties, such as parents and their children. In other instances, however, several generations of familial ties are represented in one household while, still in other cases, even more distant relatives are included as members of the households.

Some household members may have no relationship to the head of the household, for example, household helpers, boarders, and relatives. They are considered as members of the household provided that they sleep in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement for the preparation and consumption of food with the household and that they do not go home to their family at least once a week.

A group of unrelated individuals, as in the case of a group of students or workers who decide to rent a place and make common arrangements for the preparation and consumption of their food, constitutes one household.

Usually, a household is an entire group of persons who customarily live in the same housing unit. However, there are cases when two or more distinct family groups or groups of unrelated persons maintain separate food arrangements even though they share one housing unit. Each of these two or more distinct groups constitutes a household.

A person who shares a housing unit with a household but separately cooks his/her meals or consumes his/her food elsewhere is not considered a member of that household. This person should be listed as a separate (one-member) household.

Sex 

Sex is the biological and physiological reality of being a male or female.

Simple literacy 

Simple literacy is the ability of a person to read and write a simple message. As such, a person is said to be literate if he/she can both read and write a simple message in any language or dialect. A person who cannot read and write a simple message, such as “I CAN READ” is considered illiterate. Moreover, a person is still considered illiterate if he/she is capable of reading and writing only his/her own name or numbers. Similarly, a person is illiterate if he/she can read but not write or he/she can write but not read.

A person who knows how to read and write but at the time of the census can no longer read and/or write due to some physical defect or illness is still considered literate. Example of this is an aged person who knows how to read and write but can no longer perform these activities due to poor eyesight or hand injury. Persons with disability who can read and write through other means such as the use of Braille are considered literate.

Household Population

Household population comprises of persons who belong to a household.

Civil Registration

Civil Registration is the recording in the appropriate civil registers, vital acts and events that affect the civil status of individuals.

Vital Statistics

Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register. Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

• Live Birth - is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of umbilical cord, or definite movement of the voluntary muscles. Whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; each product of such a birth is considered live born.

• Usual Residence - refers to the place where the person habitually or permanently resides.

• Marriage - is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life. 

• Death - refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place. 

• Counts on Births - include babies born in the Philippines whose mother’s usual residence is in a foreign country. 

• Counts on Deaths - include individuals who died in the Philippines whose usual residence is in a foreign country.

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Approved by:

(SGD) ESTRELLA R. VARGAS

Chief Statistical Specialist