PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's average life expectancy at birth has gone down from 74.4 years in 2012 to 73.4 years in 2022 due to the increase in the number of excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Among Asean countries, Malaysia now has a lower life expectancy than Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam.
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