Number of foreigners in PHL hits 177,368

Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:23

Written by Max V. de Leon / Reporter

THE number of foreigners who are living in the Philippines was placed at 177,368 as of May 2010, or just 0.2 percent of the total household population in the country.

The National Statistics Office (NSO) said the majority of them are from the United States (29,959 persons), China (28,750), Japan (11,583) and India (8,963).

Foreigners were included in the 2010 Census of Population and Housing of the NSO.

“In this census, there were 92,097,978 household population. Of this total, 177,368 were citizens of foreign countries. Among the foreign citizens, 24.8 percent had no response to the question on country of citizenship [classified under Not Reported],” the NSO reported.

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The NSO defined citizenship as the legal nationality of a person. A citizen is a legal national of the country at the time of census, while an alien is a non-national of the country. Data on citizenship allows the classification of the population into citizens and aliens.

Included in the enumeration are citizens of foreign countries who have resided or are expected to reside in the Philippines for at least a year from their arrival, except members of diplomatic missions and non-Filipino members of international organizations and civilian citizens of foreign countries who have their usual residence in the Philippines, or foreign visitors who had stayed or are expected to stay for at least a year from the date of their arrival.

The NSO said 31.1 percent of the foreigners were residing in the National Capital Region at the time of the census.

Those residing in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao made up 22.3 percent of the total foreign citizens. Region 3 had 9.0 percent, Region 4A had 8.4 percent, and Region 7 had 6.0 percent of the total foreign citizens. Region 9 had the least proportion at 0.5 percent.