The census report is officially out!
According to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri’s latest census report, our country’s population is 32.4 million, with Chinese accounting for 23.2 percent, and the eldery population has grown.
Malaysia has a population of 32.4 million people, according to the census, with a 10-year compound annual growth rate of 1.7 percent. Malays make up 69.4 percent of the population, Chinese make up 23.2 percent, Indians make up 6.7 percent, and the rest make up 0.7 percent.
Malaysia has a male-to-female ratio of 52.3 percent for males and 47.7% for females, with males outnumbering females.
In our country, 10.5 percent of the population, or 3.4 million people, are over 60. In 2010, 8% of the population, or 2.2 million persons, were over the age of 60. As a result, the number of senior people is growing, and our country, like many others, will face an ageing population.
The under-aged population has also decreased, with 24 percent of the population under the age of 18 compared to 27.6% in 2010, a 3.6 percent fall.
6.8% of the population is over 65, 69.3% is between the ages of 15 and 64, and 24% is under the age of 15.
