← Department of Statistics Malaysia (data.gov.my Data Catalogue)
Population, national total, Malaysia
This series has no golden-value checks assigned yet, so it is labelled unverified. The values are ingested from the official source with full provenance, but nothing here has been confirmed against a hand-checked reference point.
Coverage 1970-01-01 to 2026-01-01 · series id dosm-malaysia-datagovmy/population_malaysia:overall:both:overall:population
Recent values
| Period | Value | Revision |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 34,389.4 | 1 |
| 2025-01-01 | 34,220.5 | 1 |
| 2024-01-01 | 34,052.1 | 1 |
| 2023-01-01 | 33,401.8 | 1 |
| 2022-01-01 | 32,698.1 | 1 |
| 2021-01-01 | 32,576.3 | 1 |
| 2020-01-01 | 32,447.4 | 1 |
| 2019-01-01 | 32,523 | 1 |
| 2018-01-01 | 32,382.3 | 1 |
| 2017-01-01 | 32,022.6 | 1 |
| 2016-01-01 | 31,633.5 | 1 |
| 2015-01-01 | 31,186.1 | 1 |
Verification history
| Check | Result | Expected | Actual | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| freshness | pass | 56m ago | ||
| freshness | pass | 24h ago | ||
| freshness | pass | 2d ago | ||
| freshness | pass | 3d ago | ||
| freshness | pass | 4d ago | ||
| freshness | pass | 5d ago |
License and citation
License cc-by-4.0 (terms). Based on data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (OpenDOSM / data.gov.my), used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Official table: Population of Malaysia by age, sex, and ethnicity, annual · Department of Statistics Malaysia
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