PENDANG, March 24 — More than 7.36 million Malaysian citizens, or 35 per cent of the country’s population, have updated their information in the Central Database Hub...
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Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the Department of Statistics Malaysia is optimistic that more individuals who have not yet registered or updated their data will do so in the last few days before the March 31 deadline, following increasing awareness. “From that 7.36 million...the data also includes dependents under 18 years old as well. Therefore, the actual number exceeds 10 million when considering all dependents," he said at the Jelajah Padu tour involving the Siamese community at Kampung Tok Set here today.Some 100 Kampung Tok Set villagers registered with Padu with DOSM staff facilitating the registration and verification process.
“In any case, we had expected this and are prepared for a massive influx. For example, yesterday, we recorded over 300,000 registrations in a single day, and we expect it to reach up to 800,000 registrations,” he said.He said DOSM will also open more physical counters to facilitate public registration and to prevent errors.
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