{"id":263833,"date":"2024-05-15T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=263833"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:13:43","slug":"malaysias-population-up-2-3-percent-on-year-to-34-million-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=263833","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Population Up 2.3 Percent On Year To 34 Million In First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s population in the first quarter of this year was estimated at 34 million, an increase of 2.3 percent, as compared to 33.2 million a year ago, official data showed yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), said in a statement that, the population growth was contributed by the positive natural increase of citizens and higher population of noncitizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DOSM, the total population comprised 30.6 million (90 percent) citizens and 3.4 million (10 percent) noncitizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The male population increased to 17.8 million from 17.4 million a year ago, while the female population rose to 16.1 million from 15.8 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By ethnicity, Malays accounted for 57.9 percent (17.7 million) of the population recorded in the first quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of live births fell 9.4 percent, year on year, to 106,386.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 47,964 deaths were recorded in the first quarter, a decrease of 1.5 percent, as compared to a year earlier.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s population in the first quarter of this year was estimated at 34 million, an increase of 2.3 percent, as compared to 33.2 million a year ago, official data showed yesterday. The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), said in a statement that, the population growth was contributed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":263835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263836,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263833\/revisions\/263836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}