{
  "id": "ph-population-60plus",
  "title": "Philippine population aged 60 and over",
  "metric": "Population aged 60+",
  "unit": "persons aged 60+",
  "kind": "count",
  "volatility": "annual",
  "direction_note": "a growing 60+ denominator against static specialist and facility counts widens every per-capita care gap",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Philippine Statistics Authority — Census of Population and Housing (2015, 2020) and 2025 subnational population projections",
    "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260726181032/https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-distribution-philippine-population-2020-census-population-and-housing"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"Philippine population aged 60 and over\" (Population aged 60+). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-population-60plus.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-population-60plus.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-population-60plus.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-21",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2015",
      "value": 7530000,
      "source": {
        "label": "PSA, \"Age and Sex Distribution in the Philippine Population (2020 CPH)\" — the 2020 release states the 2015 comparison (Internet Archive capture, psa.gov.ph 403s to fetch)",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260726181032/https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-distribution-philippine-population-2020-census-population-and-housing"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-26",
      "note": "Census household population, 7.5% of the household population. PSA-published rounded figure (\"7.53 million\"). From the same release that carries 2020: \"8.5 percent (9.22 million) ... higher than the 7.5 percent (7.53 million) recorded in 2015.\"\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2020",
      "value": 9222672,
      "source": {
        "label": "PSA, \"Total and Household Population by Single-Year Age, Sex, and Region_2020 CPH.xlsx\" — 60-through-80+ bands summed by the author; reproduces PSA's printed \"9.22 million (8.5%)\"",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260726181032/https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-distribution-philippine-population-2020-census-population-and-housing"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-26",
      "note": "Census household population, 8.5%. Exact aggregation of the PSA single-year age table (9,222,672), which matches the \"9.22 million\" PSA prints in words.\n",
      "readings": [
        {
          "value": 9220000,
          "source": {
            "label": "PSA 2020 CPH release, text-extracted from the Internet Archive capture 20260726181032 on 2026-08-26",
            "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260726181032/https://psa.gov.ph/content/age-and-sex-distribution-philippine-population-2020-census-population-and-housing"
          },
          "quote": "They made up 8.5 percent (9.22 million) of the household population in 2020, higher than the 7.5 percent (7.53 million) recorded in 2015."
        }
      ],
      "rationale": "The exact single-year aggregation (9,222,672) is used as the value because it is re-runnable and reproduces PSA's own rounded print of 9.22 million; the rounded release figure is kept as a corroborating reading.\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025",
      "value": 11460828,
      "source": {
        "label": "PSA subnational population projections for 2025, distributed as the common operational dataset by OCHA; adm0/adm1 age-band files, five 60+ bands summed by the author",
        "url": "https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-phl"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-21",
      "note": "PROJECTION on the TOTAL-population basis (115,377,992 total projected), NOT a census household count — a different universe from the 2015/2020 rows. Carried because it is the denominator the-philippine-bed-counted uses for its 2025 facility ratios; the basis difference is disclosed there and here rather than laundered into a clean census trend.\n"
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}