Aging Population In Malaysia
Population size and growth malaysia s population in 2019 is estimated at 32 6 million increased from 32 4 million as compared to 2018.
Aging population in malaysia. The annual population growth rate decreased to 0 6 per cent in 2019 as compared to 1 1 per cent in 2018. As of 2017 the number of people aged 65 and above in malaysia was about two million or 6 3 of the total population. In malaysia the 5 9 or l 2 million older persons 60 years and over in 1995 in malaysia is projected to increase to about l 5 million 6 6 in 2000 and possibly to about med j malaysia vol 54 no 4 dec 1999 4 million 11 3 in the year 2020. A median projection by the united nations that by 2030 malaysia will be an aged country with 14 of the population or 5 2 million people aged 60 and above should serve as a wake up call for malaysians to plan and act now according to employees provident fund epf chairman tan sri samsudin osman.
Malaysia is at risk of becoming an ageing population when 7 of the total population is aged 65 and above based on the definition set by the world health organisation. In malaysia senior citizens are defined as those aged 60 years and above based on the definition made at the world assembly on ageing 1982 in vienna. According to a statement by malaysia s chief statistician on july. The older population aged 65 years or over will take only 23 years to double from 7 percent in 2020 to 14 percent in 2043.
Henceforth malaysia is expected to continue to age rapidly and projected to become an aged society by 2044 it said in the report referring to the situation where more than 14 per cent of the population are aged 65 and above. Women family and community development minister datuk seri rohani abdul karim said a forecast by the statistics department revealed that malaysia s senior citizen population aged 60 and above would number 5 6 million by 2035. An aging population is defined as one in which those aged 65 years and above make up at least 15 percent of the total population. Changing age structure with the fertility and longevity patterns shown earlier it comes as no surprise that the malaysian chinese are ageing faster than other ethnic groups.
Compared to the more developed countries malaysia has a rather short time to prepare for the transition into an aged nation. Kuala lumpur aug 10. The world bank said malaysia will become an ageing society this year which means seven per cent or more of the country s population are aged 65 and above.