Malaysia makes more sense when you can see it moving beside its neighbours.
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POPULATION · SOUTHEAST ASIA
Southeast Asia's population race
Watch how the population ranking across Southeast Asia changes through the World Bank's available annual series.
1960
11Brunei88.3K
1Indonesia88.3M
7Cambodia5.45M
8Laos2.12M
5Myanmar21.7M
6Malaysia7.96M
3Philippines27.9M
9Singapore1.65M
4Thailand26.9M
10Timor-Leste468.1K
2Vietnam32.5M
196019602025
World BankValues: people
STORY NOTES
What makes this worth sharing?
Regional context turns a domestic statistic into a comparative story and shows why PulseKita should be Malaysia-first rather than Malaysia-only.
SOCIAL HEADLINE
How did Southeast Asia's population ranking change?
CAPTION
Eleven Southeast Asian countries, one moving population ranking. See where Malaysia sits as the region changes over time.
Source: World Bank, Population total (SP.POP.TOTL).#PulseKita#ASEAN#SoutheastAsia#DataStory
METHODOLOGY
One regional story, one global source.
PulseKita reads the World Bank indicator SP.POP.TOTL for 11 Southeast Asian countries, keeps non-null annual observations, and ranks countries by population for each available year.
The available start and end years are determined by the World Bank API rather than hard-coded by PulseKita.
Different countries can have revisions or gaps in individual years; the visual shows the latest values returned by the source.
SOURCEWorld Bank