Country or area · South-Eastern Asia · Asia · UN WPP 2024

Malaysia population

Malaysia population now

36,483,463

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 36.1–37.0 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 35,126,298

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 36.3851 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 36.1–37.0 million
Median age: 32.4
Aged 65+: 8.3%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2072

male female projection · one cell = 5,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

MYS · 1950–2100 · in brief

Malaysia in numbers

35,126,298 people lived in Malaysia in mid-2023: 0.43% of the world's people, and the 44th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 5.8 times its 1950 population of 6.1 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2072 at 46.4 million, then falling to 44.0 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 15.8 million to 111 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2060; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it. The population still grows until 2072, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 19.8 in 1950 and 31.1 in 2023; the projection has 48.4 in 2100. 7.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 30.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2047 at 29.8 million.

Among countries it ranks 44th in 2023, 49th in 2050 and 51st in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Poland in 2029, Ukraine in 2031 and Morocco in 2045. It is overtaken by Mozambique in 2026, Ghana in 2029 and Côte d’Ivoire in 2033.

Population, mid-2023: 35,126,298
Rank by population, 2023: 44 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.43%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.24% · +430,805 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 107
Land area, 2023: 328,550 km²
Births, 2023: 435,989
Deaths, 2023: 181,166
Net migration, 2023: +181,071
Children per woman, 2023: 1.55
Median age, 2023: 31.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.7 years
In a city, 2025: 56 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 6,098,284
Projected, mid-2050: 44,289,772
Projected, mid-2100: 44,026,122

MYS · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Malaysia, 1950–2100

Malaysia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	6,020,288		272,659	124,013	6.43	48.5
1951	estimate	6,176,279		279,241	120,678	6.43	49.2
1952	estimate	6,338,555		286,024	116,280	6.43	50.1
1953	estimate	6,507,137		293,634	112,034	6.44	51.1
1954	estimate	6,680,749		301,475	108,550	6.45	52.0
1955	estimate	6,864,007		309,389	105,306	6.45	52.8
1956	estimate	7,055,919		317,773	102,351	6.46	53.7
1957	estimate	7,257,332		326,320	99,516	6.47	54.5
1958	estimate	7,468,312		332,373	96,390	6.46	55.4
1959	estimate	7,657,445		337,118	93,130	6.44	56.3
1960	estimate	7,854,127		341,203	90,108	6.41	57.2
1961	estimate	8,058,267		344,437	87,167	6.37	58.0
1962	estimate	8,270,618		346,436	84,299	6.30	58.9
1963	estimate	8,489,725		347,436	81,621	6.19	59.7
1964	estimate	8,714,596		345,481	79,073	6.03	60.5
1965	estimate	8,942,217		341,770	76,933	5.84	61.1
1966	estimate	9,170,599		337,742	75,573	5.63	61.7
1967	estimate	9,398,777		333,851	75,089	5.43	62.0
1968	estimate	9,615,421		335,329	74,618	5.29	62.4
1969	estimate	9,835,142		338,525	74,195	5.16	62.9
1970	estimate	10,060,053		343,197	73,857	5.04	63.3
1971	estimate	10,297,551		345,666	73,336	4.92	63.8
1972	estimate	10,549,356		349,282	73,014	4.82	64.2
1973	estimate	10,804,315		357,327	72,723	4.73	64.7
1974	estimate	11,066,927		362,339	72,460	4.62	65.2
1975	estimate	11,334,885		366,682	72,133	4.50	65.7
1976	estimate	11,608,942		372,295	71,675	4.40	66.2
1977	estimate	11,891,253		376,962	71,442	4.28	66.7
1978	estimate	12,180,173		382,455	71,432	4.18	67.2
1979	estimate	12,476,142		388,958	71,527	4.09	67.6
1980	estimate	12,779,583		398,506	71,569	4.04	68.1
1981	estimate	13,187,143		412,129	72,147	4.00	68.5
1982	estimate	13,611,263		425,784	72,656	3.97	68.9
1983	estimate	14,054,333		438,942	73,660	3.93	69.2
1984	estimate	14,517,482		451,382	74,576	3.88	69.5
1985	estimate	15,000,536		458,835	75,597	3.80	69.9
1986	estimate	15,503,981		462,596	76,807	3.70	70.1
1987	estimate	16,016,858		460,221	78,224	3.56	70.3
1988	estimate	16,536,615		466,384	79,883	3.50	70.5
1989	estimate	17,056,594		454,514	81,249	3.31	70.8
1990	estimate	17,573,400		467,566	83,043	3.30	71.0
1991	estimate	18,092,942		486,310	84,377	3.34	71.2
1992	estimate	18,591,985		504,631	85,735	3.37	71.5
1993	estimate	19,077,160		517,021	87,103	3.36	71.7
1994	estimate	19,568,169		527,035	89,162	3.35	71.9
1995	estimate	20,072,723		534,696	91,338	3.32	72.0
1996	estimate	20,588,474		543,569	93,383	3.30	72.1
1997	estimate	21,111,700		542,946	95,178	3.23	72.3
1998	estimate	21,638,737		534,047	97,732	3.12	72.4
1999	estimate	22,174,688		533,188	100,836	3.07	72.4
2000	estimate	22,696,373		519,149	101,767	2.94	72.7
2001	estimate	23,239,259		503,496	102,543	2.81	73.1
2002	estimate	23,813,818		484,203	103,121	2.66	73.5
2003	estimate	24,391,135		482,490	105,065	2.60	73.7
2004	estimate	24,968,069		471,853	106,716	2.49	74.0
2005	estimate	25,545,476		463,500	108,176	2.39	74.4
2006	estimate	26,126,667		459,539	110,028	2.31	74.7
2007	estimate	26,709,151		461,421	112,728	2.25	75.0
2008	estimate	27,287,626		478,520	116,137	2.26	75.2
2009	estimate	27,852,492		486,290	120,129	2.22	75.3
2010	estimate	28,397,063		484,452	124,183	2.14	75.4
2011	estimate	28,914,490		501,172	128,340	2.15	75.5
2012	estimate	29,409,588		504,320	132,819	2.12	75.5
2013	estimate	29,916,074		505,751	139,004	2.07	75.5
2014	estimate	30,432,455		513,359	145,788	2.06	75.3
2015	estimate	30,959,818		510,212	151,910	2.01	75.3
2016	estimate	31,505,777		501,915	156,253	1.94	75.4
2017	estimate	32,073,594		495,979	159,556	1.89	75.5
2018	estimate	32,637,695		487,355	162,771	1.84	75.7
2019	estimate	33,184,239		475,958	166,531	1.78	75.9
2020	estimate	33,696,952		453,893	170,585	1.68	76.1
2021	estimate	34,082,165		424,571	212,599	1.55	73.9
2022	estimate	34,482,632		430,022	192,464	1.55	75.4
2023	estimate	34,908,354		435,989	181,166	1.55	76.7
2024	estimate	35,344,242		439,568	187,483	1.54	76.8
2025	projection	35,771,105	35.6–35.9 million	439,747	192,887	1.53	77.0
2026	projection	36,184,571	35.9–36.5 million	440,401	198,321	1.52	77.2
2027	projection	36,585,658	36.1–37.0 million	441,945	203,954	1.51	77.3
2028	projection	36,984,516	36.3–37.6 million	444,015	209,703	1.51	77.5
2029	projection	37,381,023	36.5–38.2 million	446,274	215,462	1.51	77.7
2030	projection	37,767,553	36.7–38.9 million	448,898	221,347	1.51	77.8
2031	projection	38,155,884	36.8–39.5 million	450,625	227,272	1.50	78.0
2032	projection	38,539,687	36.9–40.1 million	452,440	233,215	1.50	78.2
2033	projection	38,917,080	37.0–40.8 million	454,398	239,372	1.50	78.3
2034	projection	39,278,668	37.1–41.4 million	455,905	245,639	1.50	78.5
2035	projection	39,637,022	37.2–42.1 million	457,884	251,886	1.50	78.7
2036	projection	39,992,628	37.2–42.8 million	460,153	258,444	1.51	78.8
2037	projection	40,341,168	37.2–43.5 million	461,894	264,992	1.51	79.0
2038	projection	40,683,395	37.3–44.2 million	463,460	271,280	1.51	79.2
2039	projection	41,023,229	37.3–44.9 million	465,463	277,420	1.51	79.3
2040	projection	41,348,543	37.3–45.6 million	466,531	283,912	1.51	79.5
2041	projection	41,670,745	37.3–46.3 million	467,853	290,524	1.51	79.7
2042	projection	41,986,440	37.2–47.0 million	467,551	297,017	1.51	79.8
2043	projection	42,302,492	37.2–47.7 million	467,099	303,784	1.52	80.0
2044	projection	42,609,414	37.1–48.5 million	465,206	310,308	1.52	80.2
2045	projection	42,898,859	36.9–49.3 million	462,316	316,810	1.52	80.3
2046	projection	43,177,550	36.8–49.9 million	458,523	323,463	1.52	80.5
2047	projection	43,449,947	36.8–50.8 million	454,997	330,219	1.52	80.7
2048	projection	43,710,971	36.6–51.5 million	451,421	336,982	1.53	80.8
2049	projection	43,952,182	36.3–52.3 million	447,179	343,592	1.53	81.0
2050	projection	44,178,897	36.0–53.0 million	442,797	350,187	1.53	81.1
2051	projection	44,400,648	35.9–53.8 million	439,006	356,751	1.53	81.3
2052	projection	44,604,577	35.8–54.6 million	435,530	363,439	1.53	81.5
2053	projection	44,798,567	35.5–55.5 million	431,675	370,061	1.53	81.6
2054	projection	44,981,369	35.3–56.3 million	428,077	377,334	1.53	81.8
2055	projection	45,146,331	35.1–57.2 million	424,924	384,168	1.53	81.9
2056	projection	45,292,850	34.6–58.1 million	422,316	391,072	1.53	82.1
2057	projection	45,432,861	34.1–59.0 million	420,377	397,763	1.53	82.2
2058	projection	45,562,274	33.6–59.9 million	418,527	404,734	1.53	82.4
2059	projection	45,682,856	33.2–60.9 million	417,159	412,040	1.53	82.5
2060	projection	45,799,312	32.7–61.7 million	416,440	419,270	1.53	82.7
2061	projection	45,900,914	32.4–62.5 million	416,545	426,758	1.53	82.8
2062	projection	45,994,362	31.9–63.3 million	417,296	434,126	1.54	83.0
2063	projection	46,072,460	31.5–64.1 million	418,041	441,937	1.54	83.1
2064	projection	46,138,754	30.9–65.0 million	418,846	449,410	1.54	83.3
2065	projection	46,202,888	30.5–66.2 million	419,369	456,675	1.54	83.4
2066	projection	46,251,084	30.2–67.4 million	419,870	464,214	1.54	83.5
2067	projection	46,289,738	29.8–68.6 million	420,618	471,466	1.54	83.7
2068	projection	46,320,349	29.4–70.1 million	420,800	478,482	1.54	83.8
2069	projection	46,343,388	29.1–70.9 million	420,416	485,946	1.54	84.0
2070	projection	46,365,638	28.7–71.6 million	420,620	493,198	1.55	84.1
2071	projection	46,380,362	28.3–72.6 million	420,585	500,070	1.55	84.3
2072	projection	46,390,292	27.9–73.7 million	419,660	506,851	1.55	84.4
2073	projection	46,390,712	27.6–74.6 million	418,481	512,863	1.54	84.5
2074	projection	46,378,289	27.1–75.9 million	417,947	519,244	1.55	84.7
2075	projection	46,363,145	26.5–76.8 million	417,263	525,183	1.55	84.8
2076	projection	46,339,220	26.0–77.7 million	415,392	530,455	1.55	84.9
2077	projection	46,314,512	25.6–78.7 million	413,884	535,953	1.55	85.0
2078	projection	46,269,761	25.2–80.0 million	412,105	540,445	1.55	85.2
2079	projection	46,217,015	24.8–80.5 million	409,827	544,487	1.55	85.3
2080	projection	46,156,759	24.2–82.0 million	408,167	548,166	1.56	85.5
2081	projection	46,081,432	23.9–83.1 million	405,330	551,779	1.56	85.6
2082	projection	46,007,109	23.5–84.5 million	402,488	555,153	1.56	85.7
2083	projection	45,924,962	22.9–85.4 million	399,494	557,251	1.56	85.8
2084	projection	45,834,711	22.4–86.7 million	396,763	559,079	1.56	86.0
2085	projection	45,744,508	21.8–88.4 million	394,372	560,805	1.56	86.1
2086	projection	45,651,042	21.3–89.6 million	391,894	562,353	1.56	86.2
2087	projection	45,548,037	20.8–90.4 million	389,479	563,246	1.56	86.3
2088	projection	45,443,466	20.3–91.9 million	387,797	563,869	1.56	86.4
2089	projection	45,336,277	19.8–93.4 million	386,230	564,442	1.56	86.6
2090	projection	45,228,378	19.3–95.7 million	384,370	564,695	1.56	86.7
2091	projection	45,117,554	18.8–97.3 million	382,976	564,669	1.56	86.8
2092	projection	45,006,894	18.6–99.1 million	381,933	564,654	1.56	86.9
2093	projection	44,894,028	18.3–100.9 million	381,405	564,226	1.56	87.0
2094	projection	44,777,087	17.9–102.6 million	380,702	563,111	1.56	87.2
2095	projection	44,662,703	17.5–104.5 million	380,497	562,366	1.56	87.3
2096	projection	44,545,889	17.1–106.0 million	379,649	561,822	1.56	87.4
2097	projection	44,427,697	16.7–106.7 million	378,926	560,331	1.56	87.5
2098	projection	44,312,385	16.3–108.0 million	378,541	559,206	1.56	87.6
2099	projection	44,200,564	16.0–109.5 million	378,390	557,744	1.56	87.8
2100	projection	44,087,388	15.8–111.1 million	378,194	556,194	1.56	87.9

Show the numbers: Malaysia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Malaysia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	227,918	214,338
1	229,470	215,795
2	229,798	216,093
3	228,125	214,531
4	225,958	212,504
5	232,364	218,480
6	243,690	230,478
7	257,096	246,520
8	273,098	263,356
9	285,054	272,696
10	295,181	279,225
11	297,357	278,866
12	295,717	273,876
13	296,891	272,218
14	291,498	267,668
15	288,302	265,415
16	289,556	267,012
17	287,208	265,780
18	289,378	268,612
19	293,374	272,888
20	304,292	281,216
21	324,990	296,271
22	337,262	304,692
23	337,252	303,955
24	335,396	302,089
25	336,637	301,380
26	338,544	299,342
27	340,443	296,644
28	342,906	294,218
29	344,137	290,942
30	344,636	287,902
31	345,720	286,566
32	347,324	286,834
33	348,822	287,763
34	348,947	288,273
35	347,156	288,196
36	344,092	287,766
37	341,018	287,402
38	338,198	287,040
39	333,477	285,028
40	327,291	281,550
41	321,534	277,592
42	315,945	272,544
43	309,256	265,564
44	298,930	255,238
45	285,294	243,029
46	271,117	231,968
47	257,622	222,525
48	244,676	213,915
49	231,167	205,336
50	218,402	197,786
51	208,758	192,172
52	201,736	187,349
53	195,390	182,396
54	187,700	176,652
55	179,296	170,767
56	172,048	165,890
57	165,909	161,761
58	160,364	157,853
59	154,982	153,625
60	150,200	149,488
61	146,776	146,200
62	144,130	143,341
63	140,746	139,882
64	135,460	134,907
65	128,878	128,932
66	122,009	122,922
67	114,898	116,876
68	107,688	110,755
69	100,796	104,698
70	94,563	99,059
71	88,884	93,920
72	83,396	88,874
73	77,777	83,526
74	71,493	77,412
75	64,671	70,720
76	57,736	63,888
77	50,972	57,114
78	44,422	50,368
79	38,232	43,870
80	32,569	37,888
81	27,740	32,733
82	23,956	28,648
83	21,006	25,485
84	18,428	22,770
85	16,069	20,266
86	13,864	17,854
87	11,745	15,472
88	9,732	13,144
89	7,899	10,948
90	6,282	8,958
91	4,877	7,214
92	3,720	5,762
93	2,820	4,601
94	2,110	3,629
95	1,555	2,792
96	1,138	2,120
97	828	1,604
98	588	1,192
99	396	830
100+	683	1,634

MYS · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Malaysia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

MYS · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Malaysia

On the UN's projection, Malaysia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2047: 29,757,300 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 24,680,000.

100 aged 15–64

32 children

11 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 41 years: 2010–2050.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

MYS · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Malaysia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Malaysia gains 173,352 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 39,711 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 232,971 (2006) and the most it lost was 47,311 (1959).

In 2024, 3,806,514 people living in Malaysia had been born in another country, 11 of every 100 people there, against 6 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

MYS · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Malaysia

Of every 100 babies born in Malaysia in 2023, 2 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 23 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 73 · 16

2023
2 · 75 · 23

2050 · projected
1 · 71 · 28

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 435,989
Average age when women have a baby: 31.0 years; 29.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 6; 99 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Malaysia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	922	450	263	106	49	34
15–19	29,141	24,801	13,577	8,101	3,865	3,012
20–24	74,552	104,670	87,722	53,791	40,081	35,614
25–29	70,262	107,111	171,605	138,966	129,782	119,600
30–34	53,758	70,648	140,730	132,889	143,146	121,464
35–39	29,726	43,886	79,497	79,899	98,172	77,245
40–44	12,588	12,989	23,821	20,642	25,480	19,595
45–49	1,637	2,036	1,897	1,581	2,212	1,622
50–54	73	91	37	14	10	8
All babies	272,659	366,682	519,149	435,989	442,797	378,194

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

MYS · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Malaysia

A baby born in Malaysia in 2021 could expect 72.8 years of life, 63.9 of them in full health (95% range 63.4–64.6). The years in less than full health come to 8.9, below the world's 9.5, in lives longer than the world's 71.4 years: more of them are healthy ones.

Women

65.1 in full health, 10.2 not: 75.3 years

Men

63.0 in full health, 7.6 not: 70.6 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.1 healthy years of 75.3. Men: 63.0 of 70.6. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 65.5.

MYS · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Malaysia

At the end of 2025, Malaysia was hosting 213,175 people who had crossed a border into it, about 6 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad213,175
Malaysia nationals abroad7,988

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 5,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Malaysia living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 3,418 people asked for asylum in Malaysia for the first time; 1,790 people from Malaysia asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Malaysia whose claims were decided that year, 45 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

MYS · of every 100 people

How people live in Malaysia

Of every 100 people in Malaysia in 2025, 56 lived in a city, 27 in a town or suburb and 17 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 2 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

MYS · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Malaysia went in school

Of every 100 adults in Malaysia in 2020, 8 never went to school and 67 finished upper secondary or went further.

8 never went to school 4 some primary 8 finished primary 13 finished lower secondary 48 finished upper secondary 19 studied after school

The young went further: 1.4 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 14.4 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 1.6 against 8.5).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2045; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2050.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

MYS · cities · 2025

Cities in Malaysia

Malaysia had 42 cities in 2025, home to 20.0 million people. The largest, Kuala Lumpur, holds 23 of every 100 people in Malaysia.

Kuala Lumpur8,443,731
Johor Bahru1,695,838
Ipoh823,097
Kota Kinabalu789,885
George Town765,884
Kuching586,880
Malacca City555,703
Bukit Mertajam517,326
Kota Bharu460,445
Seremban434,530

All 15 cities in Malaysia that reach 300,000 people

Kuala Lumpur 8,443,731
Johor Bahru 1,695,838
Ipoh 823,097
Kota Kinabalu 789,885
George Town 765,884
Kuching 586,880
Malacca City 555,703
Bukit Mertajam 517,326
Kota Bharu 460,445
Seremban 434,530
Sandakan 400,980
Tawau 375,573
Kuantan 373,353
Kuala Terengganu 326,615
Sungai Petani 310,566

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Malaysia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.