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9.19 million children under-18 in Malaysia in 2022, says Statistics Dept

The Department of Statistics Malaysia says children under the age of 18 make up 28.1% of the country’s population of 32.65 million. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 28, 2022.

He said the composition of children under five years old in 2022 is 2.39 million, comprising 1.22 million boys and 1.17 million girls, which is 26% of the total number of children in Malaysia. On immunisation programmes, Uzir said there were five immunisations given to infants, namely bacillus Calmette-Guerin , poliomyelitis , diphtheria, tetanus & pertussis , haemophilus influenzae type B and hepatitis B.The three immunisations namely Polio, DTP and HIB showed a decrease of 3.5% to 94.2% in 2021 as compared to 97.7% in 2020, he said, adding that for hepatitis B, it decreased by 8.2% to 93% in 2021 as compared to 101.2% in 2020.

Uzir said that findings in education showed that the enrolment transition rate for primary to lower secondary level showed an increase of 1.5% to 90.9% in 2021, compared to 89.4% in 2020.

 

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