The Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement that among them, 30.2 million are citizens.
The ethnic Chinese population stood at 6.9 million, remained unchanged as compared to a year ago, but its proportion declined to 22.8 percent from 23 percent.
The Bumiputera, which includes the ethnic Malay population, rose to 21.1 million from 20.9 million a year earlier, and its proportion increased to 69.9 percent from 69.6 percent.
The Indian population, on the other hand, remained unchanged at 2 million, with its proportion down 0.1 percentage point to 6.6 percent.
Meanwhile, the male population outnumbered the female with 17 million and 15.7 million respectively.
A total of 110,858 births were recorded in the second quarter, an increase of 0.2 percent as compared to a year ago.
At the same time, a total of 46,772 deaths were recorded in the second quarter, a decrease of 6.9 percent as compared to a year earlier.
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