PETALING JAYA: While 49 babies were born every hour in the first quarter of this year, the country is still behind last year’s figures in terms of overall number of live births.
Mohd Uzir said male babies outnumbered female babies with 54,747 births versus 51,639 births for the latter. Uzir said the number of live births recorded for Chinese and Indians decreased to 8.8% and 3.7%, respectively, compared to 9.7% and 4.3% last year. “The overall sex ratio of the population was 111 males per 100 females, while sex ratio for citizens was 103 males per 100 females,” Mohd Uzir said.
He added that the population covering those ages between 15 to 64 also increased to 23.8 million, while the segment aged 65 and above remained unchanged at 2.5 million. “In the first quarter 2024, Malays accounted for 51.4% or 24,667 deaths from the total, while the deaths for Indians remained unchanged at 8.5%.
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