World population/Malaysia
Asia
Population of Malaysia
36,385,116
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#45
world rank
0.44%
of world population
+1.10%
yearly change
+399,970
people this year
440,401
births a year
198,323
deaths a year
How the figure for Malaysia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Malaysia at 36,385,116 on 1 July 2026, and projects 36,785,086 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Malaysia at number 45 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.44 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 440,401 births and 198,323 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.