2   BANK DENSITY RATIO
Philippine Banking System
as of end of periods indicated
			2003					2004
			Mar	June	Sept	Dec		Mar	June	Sept		Dec
A.  Philippine banking offices per city/municipality
Philippines			5	5	5	5		5	5	5		5
National Capital Region (NCR)			152	151	152	153		154	155	155		155
Outside NCR			3	3	3	3		3	3	3		3
Region I	-	Ilocos	3	3	3	3		3	3	3		3
Region II	-	Cagayan	2	2	2	2		2	2	2		2
Region III	-	Central Luzon 1/	6	6	6	6		6	6	6		6
Region IV-A	-	Calabarzon 1/	8	8	8	8		8	8	8		8
Region IV-B	-	Mimaropa 1/	2	2	2	2		2	2	2		2
Region V	-	Bicol	2	2	2	2		2	2	2		2
Region VI	-	Western Visayas	3	3	3	3		3	3	3		3
Region VII	-	Central Visayas	4	4	4	4		4	4	4		4
Region VIII	-	Eastern Visayas	1	1	1	1		1	1	1		1
Region IX	-	Western Mindanao	1	2	2	2		2	2	2		2
Region X	-	Northern Mindanao	3	3	3	3		3	3	3		3
Region XI	-	Southern Mindanao	4	5	5	5		5	5	5		5
Region XII	-	Central Mindanao	2	3	3	3		3	3	3		3
Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)			1	1	1	1		1	1	1		1
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)			1	0	0	0		0	0	0		0
CARAGA			1	1	1	1		1	1	1		1
B.  No. of persons served by each banking office *
Philippines			10,774	10,853	10,876	10,892		10,923	10,886	10,905		10,929
National Capital Region (NCR)			4,159	4,209	4,208	4,190		4,175	4,162	4,174		4,190
Outside NCR			14,324	14,388	14,431	14,491		14,579	14,520	14,533		14,546
Region I	-	Ilocos	11,689	11,736	11,656	11,671		11,781	11,639	11,654		11,638
Region II	-	Cagayan	14,686	14,681	14,603	14,527		14,453	14,380	14,309		14,172
Region III	-	Central Luzon 1/	10,362	10,450	10,407	10,417		10,426	10,397	10,432		10,428
Region IV-A	-	Calabarzon 1/	8,178	8,259	8,297	8,364		8,424	8,432	8,485		8,522
Region IV-B	-	Mimaropa 1/	20,107	20,407	20,712	20,842		20,973	20,925	21,055		21,185
Region V	-	Bicol	23,073	23,168	23,047	23,141		23,343	23,222	23,103		22,986
Region VI	-	Western Visayas	17,006	17,167	17,063	17,135		17,252	17,191	17,263		17,380
Region VII	-	Central Visayas	11,925	11,980	12,010	12,015		12,095	12,125	12,031		12,085
Region VIII	-	Eastern Visayas	32,413	31,786	32,467	32,362		32,001	31,651	31,556		31,709
Region IX	-	Western Mindanao	29,656	30,927	30,814	30,985		31,445	30,763	30,932		30,822
Region X	-	Northern Mindanao	14,121	12,032	12,193	12,154		12,368	12,227	12,288		12,299
Region XI	-	Southern Mindanao	16,146	23,608	23,749	24,095		24,446	24,591	24,213		24,252
Region XII	-	Central Mindanao	38,907	16,767	17,166	17,261		17,461	17,556	17,652		17,324
Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)			14,041	13,983	14,191	14,266		14,205	14,015	13,959		13,904
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)			51,536	78,501	87,904	88,248		88,594	88,939	89,285		89,631
CARAGA			22,348	22,259	22,602	23,410		23,541	22,332	22,246		22,368
*  Philippine population based on National Statistics Office (NSO) data
1/ Southern Tagalog Region was divided into 2 Regions while Aurora Province was integrated with Central Luzon per Executive
Order #103 dated May 17, 2002
Source: Supervisory Data Center, Supervision and Examination Sector
Updated as of 29 December 2005