The Number Of Foreign Workers In Malaysia Is Greater Than The Population of These Nations

There are over 2,070,000 million foreign workers employed legally in Malaysia. Let us put that into perspective for you.

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Yesterday in the Dewan Rakyat, we found out that Malaysia has a whopping 2.07 million legal foreign workers in the country

To put how many 2,070,00 people is into perspective, we've prepared this infographic comparing the number of foreign workers in Malaysia to the population size of countries around the world:

The amount of legal foreign workers in Malaysia compared to population sizes around the world.

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This amount of foreign workers also outnumbers the 1.98 million ethnic Indians in Malaysia

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Minister Wee Ka Kiong raises an alarm if the number foreign workers are not controlled, they could also overtake the ethnic Chinese population

This figure does not take into account of the estimated 2.2 million illegal and undocumented foreign workers

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