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Davao Region · Philippines

Davao population

1,848,947people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Davao has a population of 1,848,947, making it the 2nd largest place we list in Philippines. It is in Davao Region.

Davao holds 1.6% of Philippines's 117,724,471 people. Quezon City, the largest place we list there, is 1.7 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 1,212,504, a rise of 52%.

1,848,947
population
1,212,504
in 2005
+52.5%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
Quezon CityNational Capital Region3,084,270
CaloocanNational Capital Region1,712,945
ManilaNational Capital Region1,600,000
TaguigNational Capital Region1,308,085

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.