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In Chapter 2.1 we noted estimates which put Malaysia’s population growth rate over the two centuries prior to 1800 at between zero (in the Peninsula) and 0.2 per cent a year, with the latter figure posited also for Southeast Asia as a whole.
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Drabble, J.H. (2000). The Growth of a Plural Society. In: An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990. A Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389465_6
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