Population Of Malaysia 2019 By Age
The trend of these indicators is in line with the transition of age structure towards aging population of malaysia.
Population of malaysia 2019 by age. The population of malaysia 1950 2019 chart plots the total population count as of july 1 of each year from 1950 to 2019. This entry provides the distribution of the population according to age. Mohd uzir mahidin chief statistician malaysia department of statistics malaysia druzir mahidin dr uzir. In 2019 22 7 million people are of working age defined by dosm as individual aged between 15 to 64 years old.
Information is included by sex and age group as follows. Currently 77 8 of the population of malaysia is urban 24 862 312 people in 2019 population density the 2019 population density in malaysia is 97 people per km 2 252 people per mi 2 calculated on a total land area of 328 550 km2 126 854 sq. The increase in the composition of working age and the old age population contributed to the incline of the median age in 2019. Sex ratio men outnumbered women with the sex ratio of 106 chart 9.
In 2019 about 23 7 percent of malaysia s total population were aged 0 to 14 years. The median age rose to 28 9 years from 28 6 years in 2018. Consequently the median age increased from 23 6 years in 2000 to 26 2 years in 2010 while the dependency ratio dropped from 59 2 per cent to 48 5 per cent. This statistic shows the age structure in malaysia from 2009 to 2019.
The malaysia population live counter shows a continuously updated estimate of the current population of malaysia delivered by worldometer s rts algorithm which processes data collected from the united nations population division. The chinese population has shrunk proportionally from 1957 when it was about 40 of malaya although in absolute numbers they have increased around threefold by 2017 in malaysia 2 4 million in 1957 to 6 6 million in 2017 the later figure include east malaysia but have been dwarfed by the fivefold increase of malays from around 3 1 million in 1957 to 15 5 million in 2017. The median age of the population in malaysia is expected to reach 30 3 years in 2020 meaning that half of the population will be younger than this age and half will be older.