Malaysia’s population is expected to reach 32.7M in 2022.
According to estimates, Malaysia will have 32.7 million people overall this year, up from 32.6 million in 2021 and a 0.2% yearly population growth rate.
According to a statement released today by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), the number of foreigners in the country would drop from 2.6 million in 2021 to 2.4 million in 2022, which will result in a slower pace of population growth for the nation.
This is consistent with the travel restrictions put in place by various nations when the Covid-19 epidemic spreads over the world in 2020 and 2021.
With the publication of the Current Population Estimates 2022 report, he stated that the population of citizens climbed from 30 million in 2021 to 30.2 million in 2022 with a growth rate that decreased from 0.8% to 0.7% over the same period.
He continued by saying that other nations, including Singapore (-0.3%), Australia (1.3%), the United Kingdom (0.4%), Japan (-0.3%), and New Zealand (1.3%) also experienced slower population growth trends as a result of declining total fertility rates, decreased net migration from abroad, and an increase in the number of deaths from old age.
The percentage of citizens in the population in 2022 is 92.6 percent, up 0.5 percentage points from 2021’s (92.1 percent), while the percentage of non-citizens in the population decreased from 7.9 to 7.4 percent over the same time period.
The DOSM discovered that this year, men outnumbered women in terms of population by sex.
According to the age structure, Uzir claimed that as Malaysia’s older population grows annually, the proportion of children under the age of 14 (young age) people fell to 23.2% in 2022 from 23.6% in 2021.
Chinese and Indian people made up a smaller percentage of the population—22.8% (2021: 23.0%) and 6.6% (2021: 6.7%), respectively. Others held steady at 0.7%.
Selangor (21.6%), Johor (12.3%), and Sabah (10.4 per cent) will be the three states with the greatest population mix in terms of total population in 2022.
With 20 persons per square kilometre, Sarawak has the lowest population density, followed by Pahang (45) and Sabah (46).
