INTERESTING CENSUS

DATA OF MYANMAR
PRESENTED BY HS DR. HTET HTET LIN
1: DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

• The population size of Myanmar is 51,486,253 persons

• 24,824,586 were males, while 26,661,667 were females
• Annual population growth rate is estimated at 0.89 percent
• for every 100 persons in Myanmar, 70 persons live in rural
areas and 30 persons live in urban areas
• About 70 percent of households are made up of between 2 to 5
persons
• The total dependency ratio in 2014 is 52.5, much lower than
the ratio of 73.9 in 1983
 EDUCATION

• Literacy rate among the population aged 15 and over is

89.5 percent
• Yangon Region registering the highest literacy rate at 96.6
percent, while Shan State has the lowest at 64.6 percent
• Myanmar’s literacy rate is equal to the average literacy
rates for ASEAN countries
 ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS

• the proportion of the population in the labour force among the

population aged between 15 and 64 years is 67.0 percent
• The employment to population ratio is 64.4 percent
 BIRTHS

• Total Fertility Rate is 2.3 for all women and 4.03 for ever-
married women
• the number of children a woman is likely to have if she lived
from age 15 to age 49 is 2.3
• Age-specific fertility rates peak between age 25 and 29
• Fertility rates for all women aged 15 to 49 are higher in
rural areas than in urban areas
• the total fertility rate for urban women is 1.8, while that of
rural women is 2.5
 MORTALITY

• Life expectancy at birth is 66.8 years

• Life expectancy is higher in urban areas (72.1 years) than in
rural areas (65.5 years). Life expectancy at birth for males is
63.9 years while for females it is 69.9 years.
• Mon State has the highest life expectancy (71.7 years)
followed by Yangon Region (71.2 years). Magway Region has
the lowest life expectancy at birth, at 60.6 years, followed by
Ayeyawady Region at 61.0 years.
 MORTALITY

• Infant mortality rate is at 62

• for every 1,000 live births, 62 infants die before reaching one
year of age
• Under-5 mortality rate is at 72
• About 72 children die between birth and five years of age for
every 1,000 live births
 DISABILITY

• The types of disability covered included seeing, hearing,

walking and remembering/mental
• Disability prevalence rate is at 4.6 percent
• The most common form of disability is seeing difficulties
• 54.1 percent had difficulties seeing. Up to 41.4 percent had
difficulties walking, while 36.2 percent reported difficulties
remembering. About 29.1 percent of those with a disability
reported difficulties hearing.
 COMMUNICATION FACILITIES

• About 50 percent of households have a television and 33

percent have a mobile phone
• There were more households with internet than computers
which suggests that some households use mobile phones to
access the internet.
 TRANSPORTATION

• About 39 percent of all households have a motorcycle

• About 70 percent of households with motorcycles are in
rural areas