DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF MALAYSIA

SUBMITTED TO :PROF. KOSHA NAIR

SUBMITTED BY:GROUP- 1

MEANING OF DEMOGRAPHY
It statistical study of living populations and sub-populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic living population, that is, one that changes over time or space. It encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging and death. It refers to characteristics of a population.

POPULATION
MALAYSIA
29,179,952

INDIA 1,205,073,612

POPULATION GROWRTH RATE

The average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country

MALAYSIA

INDIA 1.312%

AGE STRUCTURE
MALAYSIA
0-14 years: 29.6% ( Male 4,374,495/ Female 4,132,009) 15-64 years: 65.4% ( Male 9,539,972/ Female 9,253,574) 65 years and over: 5% ( Male 672,581/ Female 755,976)

INDIA
0-14 years: 29.7% (male 187,450,635/female 165,415,758) 15-64 years: 64.9% (male 398,757,331/female 372,719,379) 65 years and over: 5.5% (male 30,831,190/female 33,998,613)

BIRTH RATES
This entry gives the average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 persons in the population at midyear

MALAYSIA
20.74 births/1,000 POPULATION

INDIA 20.6 births/1,000 population

DEATH RATE
MALAYSIA
4.95 deaths/1,000

POPULATION

INDIA 7.43 deaths/1,000 population

URBANIZATION
MALAYSIA Urban population: 72% of total population Rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change INDIA Urban population: 30% of total population Rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change

LITERACY
MALAYSIA Age 15 and over can read and write : Total population: 88.7% Male: 92% Female: 85.4% INDIA Age 15 and over can read and write Total population: 61% Male: 73.4% Female: 47.8%

SEX RATIO
MALAYSIA
At birth: 1.07 male(s)/female Under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.89 male(s)/female Total population: 1.03 male(s)/female

INDIA
At birth: 1.12 male(s)/female Under 15 years: 1.13 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.9 male(s)/female Total population: 1.08 male(s)/female

ETHNIC GROUPS
MALAYSIA Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, INDIA Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%

Indian 7.1%,
Others 7.8%

RELIGIONS
MAYALSIA Muslim (or Islam - official) 60.4%, Buddhist 19.2%, Christian 9.1%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism, other traditional Chinese religions 2.6%, Other or unknown 1.5%, None 0.8% INDIA Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%

LANGUAGES
MALAYSIA Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai INDIA Hindi , Bengali , Telugu , Marathi, Tamil , Urdu, Gujarati , Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya , Punjabi, Assamese , Maithili

MAJOR CITIES
MALAYSIA KUALA LUMPUR (capital) - 1.493 million; INDIA NEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million;

KAJANG - 1.071 million;

JOHOR BAHRU 958,000 IPOH-767,794

Kolkata 15.294 million;

Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million