Mariveles is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. The 2000 Census showed that Mariveles has a total population of 85,780 spread among its 18 barangays with a population growth rate of 4.71% per annum. It has a young population and posted a high employment rate of 30% with more than 27,000 people working in the different industrial firms in the locality or into livelihood programs and entrepreneurship. Population growth rate per annum is 4.71%, twice that of the province itself.
Agricultural resources include rice, mangoes, legumes, vegetables and coffee. It also has aquatic resources like round scads, grouper, mussel, and abalone; mineral deposits of granite and basalt and forest products like vines and bamboo. Mariveles takes pride as the host of the very first economic zone in the country, the Bataan Economic Zone (formerly Bataan Export Processing Zone).
