Penang’s Villages in Numbers
By Yeong Pey Jung, Ong Wooi Leng
May 2022 STATISTICS
VILLAGES IN Malaysia are classified into eight groups: Arranged villages, planned villages, new villages, traditional villages, fishing villages, floating villages, indigenous villages and housing estates.Figures from 2020 show that Penang’s largest village type are traditional villages. These cover about 8,000 hectares, more than those found in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Perlis and Selangor (Table 1). At the same time, Penang’s floating villages are among the smallest where territory covered is concerned, and they take up only about 13 hectares. The...
Yeong Pey Jung
is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.
Ong Wooi Leng
heads the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. Her work lies in labour market analysis and socio-economic development.
