Demographics of Malaysia - Ethnicity

Ethnicity

Malaysia's population comprises many ethnic groups. People of Austronesian origin make a slim majority of the population, and are known as the Bumiputras. Large Chinese and Indian minorities also exist. Malays, as bumiputra, see Malaysia as their land, and since race riots in 1969 bumiputra have been especially privileged in Malaysia. However, since then racial stability has prevailed, if not full harmony. Mixed marriages are on the rise. The twenty largest ethnolinguistic groups in Malaysia are as follows:

Group Total
Malay, Peninsular 9,041,091
Han Chinese, Hokkien 1,848,211
Tamil 1,743,922
Han Chinese, Hakka 1,679,027
Han Chinese, Cantonese 1,355,541
Banjar Malay 1,237,615
Han Chinese, Teochew 974,573
Han Chinese, Mandarin 958,467
Minangkabau 874,536
Indonesian 772,558
Iban 666,034
Filipino 442,933
Han Chinese, Hainanese 380,781
Han Chinese, Min Bei 373,337
Malay, East Malaysia 271,979
Han Chinese, Min Dong 249,413
Straits Chinese 236,918
Nepalese 217,587
Tausug 201,797
Dusun, Central 191,146

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