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Effects Of Population Growth In Malaysia

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All the population in every country is committed to achieve a better and higher standard of living. Every single individual wish to have adequate amount of food, good health, literacy, education, being employed and better income in their lives. The current rate of population growth is a crucial barrier to the achievement of these goals.
Population growth is one of the dominant concerns of today world as human population is growing at an alarming rate and is not a static factor. The resources on the earth remain constant in spite of the mushrooming growth of the population. In view of this, the capability to sustain the development today has become a great challenge to mankind. The birth rate (fertility), death rate (mortality), and the migration (immigration and emigration) of people in the country are primary influences that cause the fluctuations of people in an area. Population data is provided from the national level to smaller area that is country (Malaysia), state, strata, administrative district, district, Local Authority Area (LAA), Parliament and State Legislative Assembly (DUN).
Malaysia is ranked 44th most populated countries in the world. According to the World Population Review (2017), the current population in Malaysia is 31,364,177 which is a total increase of 833,170 as compared to the population in 2015 (30,331,007). The increase in population shows a positive value as the number of births exceeded the numbers of death and the increase in net migration in
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