KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Chinese are fast becoming an ageing society and are the most urbanised, compared to the other communities, according to a research organisation.
The Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies director Dr Voon Phin Keong said based on statistics in the year 2000 census, which is available now, the percentage of the Chinese community who were aged 65 and older was 5.4%, higher than the national average of 3.9% for the whole country.
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