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COUNTER · MALAYSIA

Malaysia keeps growing

Watch the published state and federal-territory population totals move through more than five decades.

PULSEKITA COUNTER1970 — 2026
1970Malaysia10,881,900peopleStart
197019702026
Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)people

STORY NOTES

What makes this worth sharing?

PulseKita editorial
HOOK

Sometimes one moving number tells the story better than sixteen separate bars.

TAKEAWAY

The counter format is designed for scale: it makes cumulative national change instantly legible on a small social screen.

SOCIAL HEADLINE

Watch Malaysia's population grow across five decades

CAPTION

One number. More than five decades. Malaysia's population story becomes much easier to feel when the total moves year by year.

Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), aggregated from Population Table: States.
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METHODOLOGY

One number, built transparently.

PulseKita sums the all-sexes, all-ages, all-ethnicities totals published by DOSM for every state and federal territory in each available year.

This visual is an aggregation of the state table rather than a separate national-series dataset.

Administrative changes follow the way DOSM publishes each year's state and federal-territory totals.

SOURCEDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)
Dataset details ↗Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Last updated: 31 Jul 2026