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Demographic history of the Philippines

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1941

The population of the Philippines was 17,000,000.

Manila had a population of 684,000.

There were 30,000 Japanese living in the Philippines, with 20,000 of them in Davao, Mindano[?]. There were 117,000 Chinese in the islands and 9,000 Americans lived on Luzon.

Some 27% of the population spoke English and 3% spoke Spanish. Tagalog was the official language (since 1937), although twice as many people spoke Visayan.



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