Two major Malaysian growth centres. One long-running population comparison.
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VERSUS · MALAYSIA
Selangor vs Johor
Two of Malaysia's biggest population centres, tracked side by side from 1970 to 2026.
1970
Selangor1.70M
VS
Johor1.33M
Selangor leads
197019702026
Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)people
STORY NOTES
What makes this worth sharing?
A versus view makes the size gap and pace of change easier to feel than two disconnected charts.
SOCIAL HEADLINE
Selangor vs Johor: how did the population gap change?
CAPTION
Selangor and Johor side by side, year after year. This is what more than five decades of population change looks like when the numbers move together.
Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), Population Table: States.#PulseKita#Selangor#Johor#MalaysiaData
METHODOLOGY
Same source. Different lens.
PulseKita compares DOSM's all-sexes, all-ages, all-ethnicities state totals for Selangor and Johor.
Administrative boundary changes matter when reading long-run state data, especially the creation of federal territories.
SOURCEDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)