NLAID - Activity in Malaysia

Information on Malaysia

Birth rate 21.08 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Climate tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons

Death rate 4.93 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires

Infant mortality rate
total 15.02 deaths/1,000 live births
male 17.37 deaths/1,000 live births
female 12.52 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai note: in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan

Life expectancy at birth
total population 73.79 years
male 71.05 years
female 76.73 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 88.7%
male 92%
female 85.4% (2000 census)

Maternal mortality rate 31 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 111

Natural resources tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite

Population
28,728,607 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 1.576% (2011 est.)

Religions 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% (2000 census)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 13 years
male 12 years
female 13 years (2008)

conferentie Religion in the Public Space

Project code NL-1-PPR-22773