2024 Philippine Country Report

•Officially: Republic of the Philippines •7,641 islands and a population of 115 million (2022 census) •Joined O-COCOSDA under the convenorship of Prof. Chiu-Yu Tseng •Hosted O-COCOSDA in 2019 under the convenorship of Prof. Satoshi Nakamura •Ethnologue country profile •The literacy rate is 98%, 518,000 deaf •There are 186 languages: 184 living and 2 extinct (“Agta, Dicamay” in the 1960s; “Agta, Villa Viciosa” in the 1990s) •184 living languages: 175 are indigenous and 9 are non-indigenous