Ethnic Groups
| Ethnic group |
census 1947 | census 1960 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 2001 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Malay | 16,742 | 41.2 | 45,135 | 53.8 | 89,267 | 65.5 | 125,717 | 65.2 | 174,319 | 66.9 | ||
| Kedayan1 | 4,291 | 5.1 | ||||||||||
| Chinese | 8,300 | 20.4 | 21,795 | 26.0 | 31,925 | 23.4 | 39,461 | 20.5 | 40,621 | 15.6 | ||
| Dusun | 2 | 4,873 | 5.8 | 8,552 | 6,3 | 15,175 | 7,9 | 15,665 | 6,0 | |||
| Iban | 1,330 | 3.3 | 3,900 | 4.6 | ||||||||
| Melanau | 2,517 | 6.2 | 318 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Indians | 11,768 | 28.9 | 3,565 | 4.3 | 2,162 | 1.6 | 5,919 | 3.1 | 29,877 | 11.5 | ||
| Others | 4,350 | 3.2 | 6,560 | 3.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 40,657 | 83,877 | 136,256 | 192,832 | 260,482 | 332,800 | ||||||
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- Bruneian (Malay or also called Kedayan) 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other (including European and Filipino) 12%. Indigenous groups include the Iban people (a branch of the Dayak people), the Dusun and the Melanau.
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