The headline inflation in Davao Occidental increased further to 5.1 percent in May 2022, from 3.5 percent in April 2022. This is the highest recorded inflation since June 2019. Inflation in May 2021 was lower at 1.8 percent. The average inflation for the first five months of the year stood at 2.8 percent. (Table A and Figure 1)

Davao Occidental Provincial Statistical Office announces the conduct of the Regional Data Dissemination Forum on 2021 First Semester Poverty Statistics and 2018-2020 Annual Labor Force Survey Results on 1 April 2022, Friday at 9:00AM at Jose de Aish Babes Hotel, Maruya St., Poblacion Malita, Davao Occidental and livestreamed via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/psa.davaooccidental) and via ZOOM.

Davao Occidental is the 81st province by virtue of RA 10360 Davao Occidental is the 81st and newest province by virtue of Republic Act No. 10360 known as “Charter of the Province of Davao Occidental” enacted on July 23, 2013. The new province was carved out from the southern part of Davao del Sur, consisting of the municipalities of Santa Maria, Malita, Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos and Sarangani. Total population went up by 22 thousand persons As of 1 August 2015, Davao Occidental had a total population of 316,342 based on the results of the 2015 Census of Population. The province comprised of 6.46 percent of Davao Region’s total population. The 2015 population of Davao Occidental is higher by 22,562 compared with the population of 293,780 in 2010. Based on the results of the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, the total population of the province was 254,512.