Overview

• The number of live births for the first quarter of 2023 increased 8.9 per cent from 102,466 births in the first quarter of 2022 to 111,604 births. Males babies outnumbered females with 57,654 births as compared to 53,950 births for females. Selangor recorded the highest live births with 21,148 births (18.9%) while Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan recorded the lowest (361 births: 0.3%). The highest age group of mothers was recorded at the age of 30-39 years which is 57,491 (51.5%), followed by the age of 20-29 years (41.6%), 40 years and over (5.3%) and less than 20 years (1.6%).

• A total of 47,767 deaths was recorded in the first quarter 2023, decreased by 11.7 per cent as compared to the first quarter 2022 (54,123 deaths). The number of deaths recorded for males were 27,357 while females 20,410 deaths. Selangor recorded the highest number of deaths with 7,548 deaths (15.8%) while Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya was the lowest with 66 deaths (0.1%). The number of deaths aged 60 and over recorded the highest number of deaths at 33,687 deaths (70.5%), followed by age 41-59 (19.9%), age 15-40 (7.1%) and age 0-14 (2.5%).

• Malaysia’s population in the first quarter 2023 was estimated at 33.2 million, increased by 1.6 per cent as compared to first quarter 2022 (32.6 million). The total population comprised 30.4 million (91.7%) Citizens and 2.8 million (8.3%) Non-Citizens. This increase was contributed by the positive natural increase of Citizens and higher Non-Citizen population.

• Males population increased from 17.1 million to 17.5 million as compared to the first quarter 2022 while females increased from 15.5 million to 15.7 million in the same period. The overall sex ratio of population was 111 males per 100 females while sex ratio for Citizens was 104 males per 100 females. Three states with the highest population in the first quarter 2023 were Selangor (21.7%) followed by Johor (12.3%) and Sabah (10.4%).
  

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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA
11 May 2023

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