In 1970, Camarines Sur was the only province with close to a million population. Albay, which was next in rank, reached the 1970 population level of Camarines Sur only 20 years later. Masbate and Sorsogon were in the same level every census year from 1970 to 1980. It is noteworthy that distribution and growth of the 1970 population were towards areas that were sparsely populated but agriculturally rich and/or endowed with fishery resources. The island province of Catanduanes and its municipalities have exhibited very low population growth from 1970 to 1980
In 1980, the pattern was towards urbanization. This was due to the pull of newly installed infrastructures, particularly roads, and the sporadic growth of trade in strategically situated municipalities that have better economic opportunities. The 1990 growth originated from the strong attraction of employment opportunities in established urban centers, which have become a source of growth of adjacent municipalities. This situation was highly evident in Naga and Legazpi areas, whose surrounding municipalities exhibited high growth rates. Unmistakably, the spill-over effects of development permeated those initial high growth areas.
the people of the bicol region called bicolanos speak any of the several languages of the bikol macrolanguage. also called bikolano an austronesian language closely related to other central philippines language such as cebuano and tagalog bikol languanges include yhe inland bikol of bikol rinconada. the bikol macrolanguange is the dominant languange of the region the filipino languange is also spoken in the northern parts of camarines norte as well as in the municipality of del gallego camarines norte , sorsogon and masbateno of manisbate are spoken masbate and dorsogon they are colloctly to as bisakol.
