The global Total Fertility Rate has fallen by nearly half since the 1960s, from above 5 births per woman to approximately 2.3 today. In some advanced economies, it has dropped below 1.5. Our grandmothers raised six children on one income. Today, couples with two incomes hesitate before one. That is a decline of more than
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Malaysia is still growing. But the numbers that matter are not just about size. They are about timing. And that timing is shifting. Malaysia is not facing a population collapse. The total population is projected to grow from 32.4 million in 2020 to about 42.4 million before flattening in the late 2050s. The issue is
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Why Malaysia’s food-security risk begins upstream, long before the supermarket shelf Malaysia’s food-security risk does not begin at the supermarket shelf. It begins much earlier, at the point where farmers decide whether they can still afford to apply enough fertiliser for the next planting season. That is the real lesson from the recent disruption in
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When the Strait of Hormuz tightened in March 2026, Malaysia did not suffer a blackout. There were no rationing queues and no sudden industrial shutdowns. What happened was quieter, but in some ways more revealing. The monthly fuel subsidy bill rose from about RM700 million to around RM3.2 billion in late March 2026, driven by
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Twenty-four years sounds like a long time. It is not. By 2050, the child born this Raya will be sitting where we are sitting now, He will be making decisions, paying taxes, raising children of his own. What we build in the next two decades, or fail to build, is the inheritance we leave them.
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Malaysia has treated net zero as a 2050 problem for long enough that it has quietly become a 2026 problem. The horizon did not move. We simply ran out of distance. That habit is now expensive. Not metaphorically expensive. Not reputationally expensive in the way sustainability reports tend to mean when they use that word
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When running a business, measuring performance is essential to ensure that goals are met, processes are optimized, and success is sustained. Two popular frameworks for tracking performance and ensuring accountability are OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). While they are sometimes conflated, these tools serve distinct purposes and can complement each
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As data centers expand globally to meet the demand for digital services, their establishment in Malaysia comes with notable challenges and drawbacks. While they support technological growth, these facilities pose significant environmental, economic, and societal risks. Below are the key reasons data centers could be detrimental to Malaysia, supported by statistics and insights: 1. High
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