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PUTRAJAYA, February 10: Malaysia’s population is estimated at 32.73 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, an increase of 0.4 percent from 32.59 million in the same period in 2019, according to the Vital Statistics report.
Statistical chief Datuk Seri, Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, said in a statement today that according to the report, the country’s total population comprised 29.85 million or 91.2% of citizens and 2.87 million or 8.8 % of non-citizens.
Men outnumbered women with 16.83 million and 15.90 million, respectively.
Mohd Uzir said that the composition of the population of people 0-14 years old decreased from 7.63 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 to 7.57 million in the same period of 2020.
In 2020, a total of 468,975 live births were registered, of which 121,251 in the fourth quarter of that year, a decrease of 2.5 percent from 124,384 in the same quarter of 2019.
The composition of the population of people aged 65 and over increased from 2.24 million to 2.34 million during the same period.
“This trend is in line with that of other developed countries heading towards an aging population,” said Mohd Uzir.
A total of 174,313 deaths were reported in 2020, 44,390 of them in the fourth quarter of that year, a drop of 0.4 percent from 44,566 in the same quarter of 2019. Called
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