PopCom Executive Director Usec. Juan Antonio Perez III (File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) is about to update the United Nations (UN) on the country's population growth data after the latter included the Philippines as one of the eight countries that are projected to contribute more than half of the world's population by 2050. Apart from the Philippines, the UN also included the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Reappointed PopCom Executive Director Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III said the UN probably based their analysis from the country's 2015-2020 data wherein the country was still averaging at 2.7 or almost three children per mother before the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) hit. Perez said data from 2015 to 2020 showed the average annual population growth in the Philippines was at 1.5 million. In 2021, even if the country recorded 1.3 millio