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Dentists (total): Malaysia, 2024-mdc
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Malaysia had 17,318 registered dentists in 2024, according to Statistics from Malaysian Dental Council - 2024, listed under the MDC website menu Statistic > Statistic MDC. Basis: registered.
Comparability A Confidence high
Series break: this series has a documented break (2024). A change across it reflects a change in source or definition, not growth. See Series break below.
Cite this
Malaysian Dental Council (Majlis Pergigian Malaysia), Oral Health Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia. (2026). Dentists (total): Malaysia, as of 2024-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/my/dentists-total/2024-mdc/
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Record
- Value
- 17,318 persons
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- registered
- Scope
- registered
- Comparability
- Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
DENTAL REGISTER NO. ON REGISTER NO. WITH APC IN 2024 Division I 17,318 14,720 Specialist (since 2022) 1,195 Division II (closed in 1972) 275 5
Locator: Statistics from Malaysian Dental Council - 2024, p.4 section 2A
Local definition
Number of dental practitioners on the Division I Dental Register (Dental Act 2018 [Act 804])
Source
Malaysian Dental Council (Majlis Pergigian Malaysia), Oral Health Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia: Statistics from Malaysian Dental Council - 2024 (10-page MDC statistics sheet, edition dated July 2025), listed under the MDC website menu Statistic > Statistic MDC. Registry entry: my-mdc-statistic-2024.
Notes
Regulator source for the same number WHO NHWA reports for 2024 (my.dentists_total.2024). Division II register (closed 1972) has 275 more; specialist register 1,195 is a subset-type register, not additive. Register is not the practising count (14,720 with APC).
Metric definition
Dentists registered or licensed to practise (headcount); definition per record notes All markets for this metric.
Series break
Series break at 2024 (between 2023 and 2024): WHO NHWA series jumps from 14,255 (2023) to 17,318 (2024), +21%, probably because the 2024 submission switched from practising-certificate holders to the full register
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17,318 persons | registered | Comparability B | WHO Global Health Observatory: National Health Workforce Accounts (dentists, dental assistants and therapists, dental prosthetic technicians) and oral health expenditure, Malaysia | Series break starts here | |
| 2024-mdc | 17,318 persons | registered | Comparability A | Statistics from Malaysian Dental Council - 2024 (10-page MDC statistics sheet, edition dated July 2025), listed under the MDC website menu Statistic > Statistic MDC | Series break starts here | |
| 2023 | 14,255 persons | other | Comparability B | WHO Global Health Observatory: National Health Workforce Accounts (dentists, dental assistants and therapists, dental prosthetic technicians) and oral health expenditure, Malaysia |
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