Malaysia(2010) - Malay(50%), Chinese(22%), Sabah/Sarawak Natives(12%), Indians(7%), Others(1%), Non-Malaysians (8%) - Departments of Statistics Malaysia
50% of the Malaysian population are Malays, according to Department of Statistics Malaysia. It is interesting that it has now become rather difficult to find the percentage of Malays in Malaysia, for unlike before when ethnic breakdowns were provided - nowadays, we do not get Malay statistics - only the collective 'Bumiputra' statistics, and the question to ask is WHY?
Is it an attempt to validate the amount of 'growing power', that seemed to be enjoyed by UMNO in BN? Is it an attempt to validate the relevance of UMNO - a Malay ethnic based party?
The principal Malay ethnic-based political party is UMNO(United Malays National Organisation), whereby our Prime Minister Najib Razak recently claimed that it had about '3 million members' which will be about 10% of Malaysia's population, and 20% of the total Malay population in Malaysia. Whether UMNO really still has '3 million members' is questionable? Of course, the other question is how many of these 3 million members are really still active or still consider themselves UMNO members - how many still support Najib Tun Razak? How many have long left the party - but their names are still on the register? How many knows that they are still party members?
Malaysian Malays, just like Malaysian Chinese and Indians, are really from so many different ethnic groups.
Malays -Bugis, Batak, Minangkabau, Minang, Jawa, Melayu Kelantan,...> Malays of Arab, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Filipina, etc. descent. [There has also been a lot of mixing through marriage - hence many a Malay, when tracing descendency will see that they are part Arab, part Chinese, part Bugis, etc...this and that.]
Chinese - Hainanese, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, TeoChew, etc
Indian - Tamil, Malayalee, Telugu, Gujerati, Punjabi, etc..
* Many of the different ethnic groups have their own language and cultural differences...
Some say that there are over 150 different ethnic groups in Malaysia > and it means a lot of sense that we be best identified as Malaysians...
But alas, these ethnicities, even amongst Malays still matter - and it matters when it comes to marriage, and even who I will do business with... [Within the different ethnicities, there can still be sub-ethnicities or even class differences..]
In 1957 - the population of Peninsular Malaysia - Malay(49%), Chinese(38%), Indian(11%), Others(2%) [Source: Demographic Trends in Peninsular Malaysia, 1947-75 by Charles Hirschman]
Population to hit 30 million this week, Statistics Department says
Wednesday February 26, 2014
06:54 AM GMT+8
06:54 AM GMT+8
UPDATED:
February 27, 2014
06:57 PM GMT+8
February 27, 2014
06:57 PM GMT+8
According
to the Statistics Department, it is projected that Malaysia’s
population will grow to 38.6 million in 2040. — Reuters pic
KUALA
LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Sometime this week, or even as early as today, the 30
millionth Malaysian will be born and it will most probably be a Malay
boy.
This is based on the Statistics Department’s figures that show males
outnumbering females at birth, by a ratio of 107:100 and Malays form the
largest segment of the population.
According to the Statistics Department, Malaysia’s population has more than tripled since it was formed in 1963.
Back in 1957 when Tunku Abdul Rahman shouted “Merdeka” seven times in
the newly-built Stadium Merdeka on August 31, there were only 6.3
million Malayans.
What’s more, there were only 410,500 Sabahans and 693,200 Sarawakians then, according to the book, Malaysia’s Demographic Transition: Rapid development, Culture, Politics by Richard Lete.
This population landmark almost went unnoticed as a minister just very
recently still thought Malaysia’s population was a mere 27 million.
Some expectant mothers who spoke to The Malay Mail Online were
both surprised that the population had almost grown to 30 million and
delighted that their babies could be the 30 millionth Malaysian.
“I’m surprised and wasn’t aware that our population is that huge. I
hope he will grow up in a good and healthy environment, with a loving
and caring society,” said 28-year-old Muniraa Abu Bakar from Selayang.
Meanwhile, former national swimmer Cindy Ong, 30, who is also expecting
her second child tomorrow said she feels special to be part of such a
historic event and hopes that her baby girl is born healthy. Her
husband, Tang Kit, was just as excited.
“It’s great that she’s going to be a part of the 30 million Malaysians,
we’re going to be carrying the baton of the future of Malaysia,” he
said of his yet-to-be-born daughter, Kiara Belle Kit.
But Malaysia is, however, far from former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamed’s vision to see a 70 million-strong population by the
year 2100.
According to the Statistics Department, it is projected that Malaysia’s
population will grow to 38.6 million in 2040. A rough calculation based
on the projected growth rate of an average of 1 per cent, the Malaysian
population will at most be 65 million in 2100.
By 2040, the Statistics Department projects that the number of Malays
will increase to 20.9 million (54.1 per cent of overall population),
followed by other Bumiputras, 5.2 million (13.4 per cent) and the
Chinese, 7.1 million (18.4 per cent).
Meanwhile, the Indian population will increase to 2.3 million (5.9 per
cent), while the non-Malaysian citizen category is expected to increase
to 2.7 million (7 per cent).
The group under others will marginally
increase to 477,000 (0.8 per cent).
As of 2010, the Bumiputra group consists of 67.4 per cent, Chinese,
24.6 per cent, Indians, 7.3 per cent, others, 0.7 per cent, while
non-Malaysian citizen make up 8.1 per cent.
In comparison, according to the book by Lete, based on the population
of 6.3 million in the peninsula when Malaya became independent in 1957,
the Malays constitute 49 per cent, Chinese, 38 per cent, Indians 11 per
cent, while others, 2 per cent.
Meanwhile,
the life expectancy rate has increased from 63.1 to 71.9 years for
male, and 66 to 76.6 for female, from 1966 to 2010.
It is projected that the life expectancy for male in 2040 is 78 years and 83 years for female.
Between 2010 and 2040, Malaysians aged 65 years and above are projected
to increase more than three folds of the 2010 population.
“The increase will lead Malaysia to become an ageing population in 2021
when the population aged 65 years and over reach 7.1 per cent,”
according to the Statistics Department’s web site.
At the time of publishing, Malaysia is 940 away from becoming a nation with a 30 million population.
* A previous version of this article stated that the male to female ratio was six-to-one, when it is in fact 106:100. However, the ratio used in the story is the male to female figure at birth, which is 107:100. That, and several other figures in the story have since been corrected to reflect the actual statistics.
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