Abstract
The purpose of this study is to describe the Malaysian life expectancy at birth from year 1991 to 2015 by different sex and ethnic groups. Malaysia’s population shows that the life expectancy for male increased from 69.2 to 72.5 years and female also increased from 73.4 to 77.4 years within the time duration. In addition, the study found that the female life expectancy is longer than male by almost 5 years in 2015. The trend of the life expectancy for three major ethnic group in Malaysia, Malay, Chinese and Indian shows that the Chinese ethnic have longer life expectancy compared to the other two ethnics whereby Chinese females were estimated to have longer life expectancy. This comparative study may help other researcher to find out the factors that influenced Chinese females to have longer life expectancy.
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Sincere thanks to the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia for the financial support from the Research Acculturation Grant Scheme (RAGS/2013/UiTM/STO6/2).
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Wahid, S.N.S., Azemi, S.N.A.N., Rashid, S.A., Hilmi, Z.A.G., Razak, M.R., Ghani, P.A. (2019). Malaysian Life Expectancy by Gender and Ethnic Group: A Comparative Study. In: Mohamad Noor, M., Ahmad, B., Ismail, M., Hashim, H., Abdullah Baharum, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2016) . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0203-9_31
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