In 2010, Benigno Aquino, Salvador Escudero, Gilberto Teoodoro or Manuel Villar may be President. Whoever is elected will inherit, from outgoing (hopefully) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, three “inevitables”: death, taxes – and nearly 92 million Filipinos. Populationwise, we’d be 20 Singapores.
Rewind to 1940. The census, that year, informed President Manuel Quezon: there were almost 20 million Filipinos. Quezon’s successor, next year, will have five times that pre-World War II headcount.
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