Most urban-dwellers are bumiputera, latest census shows

Three-quarters of Malaysians live in urban settings, with most urban-dwellers being of bumiputera ethnicity, the latest census data shows.

According to the Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2020, some 14.1 million - or 62.6 percent - of urbanites are bumiputera, followed by ethnic Chinese at 6.4 million or 28.6 percent, ethnic Indians (1.8 million or 8.1 percent), and other ethnicities (0.2 million or 0.7 percent).

The bumiputera proportion has also...