Where does Malaysia live?

Watch population intensity shift across Malaysia's states and federal territories from 1970 to 2026.

Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)31 Jul 2026

SHOW ME THE DATA1970 → 2026 · people

1970

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197019702026

Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)State map · people

SourceDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) ↗31 Jul 2026HIGH CONFIDENCE

Method & notes

IN BRIEF

The map view adds spatial context to the same DOSM series, making regional concentration visible without changing the underlying data.

METHOD & LIMITATIONS

Same population data. Now with geography.

PulseKita maps the same DOSM all-sexes, all-ages, all-ethnicities state totals used by the population race onto Malaysian state boundaries. Fill intensity is scaled against the largest state value in each year.

A darker state means a larger population relative to the largest state in that same year; the colour scale is therefore comparative within each frame.
State boundary geometry is provided separately by the open malaysia-geojson project under the MIT licence.

Evidence trail

EVIDENCE CHAINeditor-reviewed transformation

1
Primary evidencePopulation Table: States
2
TransformationPulseKita joins DOSM state population totals to named state polygons and rescales fill intensity within each year against that year's largest state value. The GeoJSON changes only map placement and boundaries, not the population values.
3
Reference contextMalaysia State GeoJSON
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Published visualMap

Source

HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary

COVERAGE1970 → 2026

UNITpeople

SOURCEmachine readable

UPDATED31 Jul 2026

primaryPopulation Table: States referenceMalaysia State GeoJSON