1. ForecastsMalaysia

   Malaysia: the UN's 2019 projection did not expect fertility this low even by 2100

   2024: 1.60. The UN's 2019 projection expected about 1.90 for 2024 and 1.72 for 2100.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Malaysia: in 2020–2023 net migration was higher than all 12 UN projections assumed
• Malaysia: eighth-graders scored 108 points lower in maths in 2023 than in 1999
• Malaysia: the DOSM 2013 projection expected a non-citizen population of 2.54M for 2025; the outcome was 3.38M
• Malaysia: the DOSM 2016 projection expected a population of 36.45M for 2026; the outcome was 34.39M
• Malaysia: 415k babies were born in 2024, 6% fewer than the UN expected that same year
• Malaysia and Iraq: similar GDP per person in 1990, 2.9 times apart in 2025

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