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PopulationTimeline2000 → 2024

POPULATION · BIRTHS · JPN + DOSM

Malaysia's live births fell to 414,918 in 2024

Registered live births fell from 537,853 in 2000 to 414,918 in 2024, while the crude birth rate declined from 22.9 to 12.2 births per 1,000 population.

National Registration Department (JPN) / Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)16 Oct 2025 · data through 2024
SHOW ME THE DATA2000 → 2024 · registered live births
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PULSEKITA TIMELINE2000 — 2024
Department of Statistics Malaysia
SourceNational Registration Department (JPN) / Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)
2000537.9Kregistered live births
537.9K2000505.5K2001494.5K2002481.4K2003481.8K2004474.5K2005472.7K2006479.6K2007493.2K2008501.6K2009491.2K2010511.6K2011526.0K2012503.9K2013528.6K2014521.1K2015508.2K2016508.7K2017501.9K2018489.9K2019471.5K2020439.7K2021423.1K2022455.8K2023414.9K2024
537.9K
Department of Statistics MalaysiaNational Registration Department (JPN) / Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)registered live births
SourceNational Registration Department (JPN) / Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) ↗16 Oct 2025 · data through 2024HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
IN BRIEF

The 2024 registered live-birth total was about 23 per cent below 2000, while the crude birth rate nearly halved.

METHOD & LIMITATIONS

How the numbers were calculated

PulseKita reproduces the official annual live-birth series published on data.gov.my/OpenDOSM. The figures are derived from JPN birth registrations using Register of Birth Form JPN.LM01. State and national birth statistics therefore describe registered live births, not every possible unregistered birth.

  • The series covers 2000 to 2024.
  • The 2024 total was 414,918 live births, down from 455,761 in 2023.
  • The crude birth rate fell from 22.9 per 1,000 population in 2000 to 12.2 in 2024.

Evidence trail

EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
  1. 1
    Primary evidenceAnnual Deaths by State
  2. 2
    TransformationPulseKita reproduces the official annual live-birth series published on data.gov.my/OpenDOSM. The figures are derived from JPN birth registrations using Register of Birth Form JPN.LM01. State and national birth statistics therefore describe registered live births, not every possible unregistered birth.
  3. 3
    Published visualTimeline

Source

HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2000 → 2024
UNITregistered live births
SOURCEmachine readable
UPDATED16 Oct 2025 · data through 2024
primaryAnnual Deaths by State
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