Every verified figure on this site, in one place, each with its source and the date it was pulled. If a number is not here, it is because we do not have it yet, and that is listed too.
Population
6,064,426
2024 POPCEN
Provinces
6
Albay to Sorsogon
Cities
7
one independent, Naga
Municipalities
107
PSA PSGC 2Q 2026
Barangays
3,471
the smallest unit of government
Services tracked
16
categories, 12 LGU and 4 national
Source · Philippine Statistics Authority, PSGC 2Q 2026 and the 2024 Census of Population. All sources.
Infrastructure
DPWH contracts in Bicol
Every figure here was pulled from the BetterGov DPWH API and verified row by row. Nothing on this page is estimated.
Contracts
17,200
infrastructure years 2016 to 2026
Total value
₱530.26B
contract amounts, not disbursements
Completed
12,920
75.1% of contracts, computed
Contractors
952
top 20 hold 43%
Flood control
₱124.94B
2,380 contracts
Unattributed
₱158.06B
no province on the record
Source · DPWH via the BetterGov.ph API. Pulled 17 August 2026. The full breakdown.
Transparency
What Bicol governments publish
Original research. Every provincial and city government website in the region, checked against twelve mandated disclosures.
What is not on this page. There is no LGU budget figure here, because we have not pulled BLGF or DBM data yet. There is no barangay official count, because we have almost none of the roughly 31,000 names. Both gaps are recorded on data sources rather than papered over with a national average.