QC population growth from 39K in 1939 to near 3M in 2020 traced
MANILA - Did you know that when the Philippine Commonwealth Government created Quezon City in 1939, it had a much smaller area than at present and a population of only 39,103 people? That small number of inhabitants came from the then sparsely-populated barrios which were taken from the Rizal towns of San Juan, Mandaluyong, Caloocan, Pasig and Marikina to comprise the infant city under Commonwealth Act (CA) 502 of Oct. 12, 1939. This and related information can be gleaned from data collated by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) which indicates that QC, once declared as the country's...
Source: philippinetimes.com