Environment - current issues: air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires
Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
Geography - note:
strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China
Sea
People Malaysia
Population:
24,385,858 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 32.6% (male 4,093,859/female 3,862,730)
15-64 years: 62.6% (male 7,660,680/female 7,613,537)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 509,260/female 645,792) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 24.1 years
male: 23.6 years
female: 24.8 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.78% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
22.86 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
5.05 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)