Over half a million in Sabah completed census, says state Statistics Dept

KOTA KINABALU: Some 503,000 or 12.9% of the total population in Sabah have been accounted for in the ongoing census process as of Monday (March 8), according to the state Malaysian Statistics Department.

Sabah Statistics director Zainol Jamil said this is based on the estimated state population of 3.91 million people in 2020, which included over one million non-Malaysian citizens.