{"id":9672,"date":"2021-05-27T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:00:27","slug":"malaysias-population-stands-at-32-75-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9672","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s population stands at 32.75 million people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PUTRAJAYA, May 27\u00a0—\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s population is estimated at 32.75\u00a0million in the first\u00a0quarter of 2021, an increase\u00a0by 0.4 percent from 32.62\u00a0million in the same period of 2020, according to the Demographic Statistics report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin in a statement today said based on the report, the country\u2019s total population comprised 29.91 million or 91.3 per cent citizens and 2.84 million or 8.7 per cent non-citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Males outnumbered females at 16.83 and 15.92 million, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohd Uzir said the composition of the population aged 65 years and over increased from 2.26 million to 2.37 million during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis trend is in line with other developed countries that are heading towards an ageing population,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The population aged 0 to14 years old in the first quarter of 2021 decreased to 7.56 million compared to 7.61 million in the first quarter of 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first quarter of this year, the number of live births recorded a decrease of 10.8 per cent to 102,969 births as compared to the same period last year of 115,439 births.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There is no baby boom in the first quarter of 2021 as anticipated following the Movement Control Order due to pandemic COVID-19,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 43,545 deaths were recorded in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 0.7 per cent compared with 43,226 deaths reported in the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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