Women and Men in Sorsogon, Based on the 2023 Vital Statistics

Release Date :

Friday, March 28, 2025

Reference Number :

25ID-PSO62-19

More males born than females

A total of 13,552 live births were registered in Sorsogon in 2023, representing a 3.87 percent increase from the 13,047 registered live births in 2022. Among the registered births, more baby boys (7,028 or 51.86 percent) were born than baby girls (6,524 or 48.14 percent), resulting in a sex ratio of 108 boys for every 100 girls. Moreover, on average, 37 babies were born daily in the province. (Figure 1)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority (Data on live births, marriage and deaths are those registered at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars in Sorsogon and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General)

Moreover, most of the city/municipalities have males outnumbered females except for the municipalities of Bulusan and Pilar. The municipality of Bulusan has 67% female share while the municipality of Pilar had 51% female share. (Figure 2 and 3 and Table 1)

Most of the babies were born to mothers aged 25-29 years old In 2023, most registered births were to parents aged 25 to 29 years, with 3,790 births (28%) to mothers and 3,378 births (24.9%) to fathers. However, births to adolescent mothers (under 20 years old) totaled 271 (2%), which was approximately three times lower than the 478 births (3.5%) fathered by adolescent fathers. (Figure 4)

Over half of the babies were born to unmarried mothers

More than half or 65.12 percent of registered live births (8,825 babies) in 2023 were born to unmarried parents. Adolescent mothers, particularly those under 15 years old, recorded the highest proportion of non-marital births, with 100% of their total births classified as non-marital. This was followed by aged 15-19 years at 97% and mothers aged 20-24 years at 84%. On the other hand, the lowest proportion of non-marital births 14% were among mothers aged 45-49 years old. (Figure 5)

Marriages involving adolescent females were three times as much as those involving adolescent males

In 2023, a total of 2,969 marriages were registered. There were 70 females who were adolescent comprising 2.4 percent of the total females who got married in 2023. This is three times higher than the number of marriages involving adolescent males. Registered marriages between adolescent males and females below 20 years old accounted for 152 or 1.5% of the total marriages in the province. (Figure 6)

Meanwhile, among the married females, there were more females married below 30 years old or 62% share. While there were more married men 30 and above years old or 51% share. (Figure 6 and Table 2)

More females in Santa Magdalena married at an older age than male

Among the city and municipalities in Sorsogon, only the municipality of Santa Magdalena registered more marriages for women above 30 years old than men in the municipality. There were 27 females who got married at 30 years old and above while those who got married below 30 years old were only 17 females. Meanwhile, five municipalities registered more males who got married at age less than 30 years old. These are the municipalities of Casiguran, Donsol, Juban, Magallanes and Pilar. (See Table 3)

More women died at older age than men

Figure 7 shows the age-sex structure of registered deaths in 2023. It shows an inverted pyramid, with fewer deaths at younger ages, except for children under 1, and progressively increasing as people grow old. In the province of Sorsogon, there were 6,204 registered deaths of which 3,553 deaths or 57.3% of the total deaths are male while the remaining 2,651 deaths or 42.7% were females.

The proportion of males who died was largest at the age groups 65 to 69 years old with 11.1% share. While for females, the largest was at the oldest age group, 85 years old and over (708 or 12.6% of female deaths). (Figure 7 and Table 3)

The sex ratio of 134 indicates that there were about 134 male deaths for every 100 female deaths. Moreover, a sex ratio of over a hundred means that more male deaths were registered compared to the female counterparts at each group before 80 years old except for age group 1 to 4 years old. (Figure 7 and Table 3)