The country’s live birth rate decreased by 10.2% to 100,732 in the second quarter of 2024, compared to 112,197 births in the same period last year, according to the Demographic Statistics released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said male babies outnumbered females at 51,759 to 48,973 births. He said that the overall gender ratio was 106 males for every 100 females.
Live Births Dropping by 10.2% in Malaysia
“On average, one baby was born every minute, 47 babies every hour, and 1,119 babies a day in the second quarter of 2024,” he said in a statement today.
Mohd Uzir said mothers aged between 30 and 39 years accounted for the highest number of live births, at 51,740 or 51.4% in the second quarter of this year, followed by mothers aged 20-29 at 41.5%, those aged 40 and above (5.4%) and mothers under 20 years (1.8%).
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