Malaysias population hits 28m amid slowing growth

The census report also showed which Malaysias flood rate is falling. wengyuen.wordpress.com pic

PUTRAJAYA, July 29 Malaysias race doubled in size from 13.7 million in 1980 to 28.3 million final year, revealed a 2010 census released today.

The rate of expansion in a final 10 years, however, was two per cent, which was lower than a 2.6 per cent race expansion available in between 1980 to 1990 as well as from 1990 to 2000.

Bumiputeras numbered 17.5 million, or 67.4 per cent of a population, while Chinese made up 24.6 per cent of a race during 6.4 million, Indians 7.3 per cent of a race during 1.9 million while others made up 0.7 per cent of a race during 200,000.

Foreigners, meanwhile, made up 8.2 per cent of a race during 2.3 million.

Minister in a Prime Ministers Department, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, pronounced during a launch of a census report here currently which Malaysias flood rate, although falling, was 2.3 per cent which is still aloft than a replacement rate of 2.1 per cent.

This is good news, he said. We need a vicious mass of people to drive consumption-led growth.

Asked about smaller countries such as Switzerland which has a race of only 7 million though is a single of a wealthiest as well as many modernized countries in a world, Nor Yakcop pronounced which it was still good for Malaysia to have a flourishing race to await made at home industries.

Former prime apportion Tun Mahathir Mohamed had, in a 1980s, longed for Malaysia to achieve a 70 million-strong population.

The UN not long ago projected which a worlds race will strike 7 billion in October this year, which is a single billion some-more than only 10 years ago, raising questions about a sustainability of a worlds race as well as a augmenting aria upon natural resources.

Commodity prices have already strike record levels due to augmenting direct from quick developing economi! es such as India as well as China.

But while most of a worlds race expansion is projected to take place in poor countries, developed economies have been grappling with a problem of augmenting longevity where a shrinking operative race is approaching to await a flourishing elderly population.

Nor Yakcop forked out which based upon a census, Malaysia enjoyed a opposite direction whereby its dependency comparative measure had decreased from over 50 non-working people being upheld by every 100 workers, to 48.5 non-workers for every 100 workers in 2010.

This direction may not last, however, as a census shows which a proportion of a race aged below 14 had forsaken from 33.5 per cent in year 2000 to 27.6 per cent final year due to falling flood rates.

Another pass direction identified by a census was a intensification of urbanisation.

Some 71 per cent of Malaysians lived in civic areas final year, up from 62 per cent final year.


No comments: