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Malaysia

35,977,838

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+420.17K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+56.6%from 22.97M
Life expectancy76.8 years2024
Fertility rate1.54births per woman · 2024
Urban population77.4%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Malaysia is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1421.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6470.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate12.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+166.62Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Malaysia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 44.29M in 2050—24.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202435.56M
  2. 205044.29M
  3. 210044.03M
Median age in 205040.1years
Births in 2050442.8Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050350.19Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19607.96M
  2. 197010.18M
  3. 198012.98M
  4. 199017.83M
  5. 200022.97M
  6. 201028.66M
  7. 202033.89M
  8. 202535.98M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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