PUTRAJAYA: Diabetes mellitus is one of the ten principal causes of death in 2018, according to the Malaysian 2019 Social Statistics Bulletin.
Commenting on the report, Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin (pix) said hypertension (hypertensive diseases) recorded the highest increase of 73.2%.
“This is followed by chronic lower respiratory diseases (59.5%) and malignant neoplasm that affects the colon, rectum and anus (39.7%),” he said in a statement, here today.
The Social Statistics Bulletin displays selected social statistics, which are the key indicators for measuring the quality of life and well-being of the people involving key areas, namely population, housing, health, education, employment, welfare services, public safety and recreation.
Meanwhile, Mohd Uzir said death from road accidents in 2018 recorded a decline of 2.4% to 4,391 deaths from 4,499 deaths in 2017.
Mohd Uzir said there were 548.598 road accidents reported to the police in 2018 and only 1.1% involved fatalities.
“Selangor recorded the highest death rate of 1,046 cases while Kelantan recorded the highest number of road accident injury cases with 1,626 cases.
“Putrajaya recorded the lowest number of injury cases and deaths, namely 10 and seven cases respectively,” he said.
According to Mohd Uzir, new motor vehicle registrations recorded an increase of 8.2% in 2018 to 1.22 million compared to 1.13 million in 2017.
“The increase was contributed by public transport (48%), followed by commercial vehicles (15.3%) and motorcycles (11.5%),“ he said.
In terms of education, the bulletin shows there are 4.92 million primary and secondary school students and 416,886 teachers in 10,486 schools nationwide. — Bernama
