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The author was formerly a Research Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and is at present Regional Demographic Adviser of the United Nations at Beirut. Sarawak A top Malaysia tourism destination on the island of Borneo.

The Borneo Project is fiscally sponsored by Earth Island Institute. The social economic implications for the future of the current rates of population growth are closely considered. Rivers as they face a defamation lawsuit (MIRI/SARAWAK/MALAYSIA) Today, timber. With eight out of the world’s 54 species, the bird features as the state symbol. The demographic characteristics of the individual communities in the multi-racial and ethnically diverse society of these Borneo States are analysed and differentials traced in the birth and death rates, in the degree of urbanization, extent of education and the like. Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state on Borneo Island, is nicknamed the ‘Land of the Hornbills’. He reviews the slow growth of population before World War II and contrast this with much more rapid growth of the last twenty years. 1 day ago &0183 &32 He said the state’s economy grew from 2.9 per cent in 2021 to 5.5-6.5 per cent in 2022, with revenue exceeding the original target by 17 per cent to RM11.9 billion last year. Mr Jones was for many years a member of the North Borneo Civil Service, and he was administratively responsible for the 1960 population censuses of Sarawak and Brunei as well as North Borneo (now Sabah). This is the first book-length demographic study of the Borneo States in the part of that island outside Indonesia-an area which has attracted considerable attention as a result of the recent ‘confrontation’ of Indonesia and Malaysia.