Malaysia Population Estimates by State, Sex, Age and Ethnicity

Name: Malaysia Population Estimates by State, Sex, Age and Ethnicity
Creator: DOSM (Malaysia)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Annual population estimates for Malaysia at state level, disaggregated by sex, age group, and ethnicity. Each row is a state-sex-age-ethnicity-year cell; `population` is in thousands. Covers all 16 states/territories, sex (both/male/female), 21 age bands (0-4 up to 'overall'), and 9 ethnicity groups (bumi, bumi_malay, bumi_other, chinese, indian, plus others and overall). Spans a long run 1970-2025 (56 years, ~264k rows). Preview shows latest year only; full download covers all years.

dosm-population-state·6 columns·427 KB·Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)·updated 13d ago

Source: DOSM (Malaysia) · connector code

Schema

state	VARCHAR
date	DATE
sex	VARCHAR
age	VARCHAR
ethnicity	VARCHAR
population	DOUBLE

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subsets sync --bundle small   # or medium, or large
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Bash

subsets serve   # local API on http://localhost:8080
curl -s -X POST "http://localhost:8080/query" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sql": "SELECT * FROM \"dosm-population-state\" LIMIT 5"}'

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