Sources: Malaysia
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated
Source registry for Malaysia dental market data: publishers, cadence and licence status.
15 registered sources for Malaysia. Licence status is recorded per publisher; figures are cited with a link, not copied wholesale.
Registry
DOSM population statistics
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics Malaysia
- URL
- https://www.dosm.gov.my/
- Update cadence
- To be confirmed
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Only a footer all-rights-reserved notice found (Copyright link is a dead '#', and portal-main/copyright returned HTTP 500); no reuse grant. Open DOSM series are separately CC BY 4.0 via data.gov.my.
- Phase
- 2
- Facts using this source
- none yet
Economic Census 2023: Services Sector / Health and Social Works Services Sector (reference year 2022)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)
- URL
- https://www.dosm.gov.my/portal-main/release-content/economic-census-2023-health-and-social-works-services-sector
- Update cadence
- Economic census every 5 years
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Release page on DOSM portal; only the site-wide all-rights-reserved footer notice found, no reuse grant; DOSM copyright page returned HTTP 500.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Release page reachable; its table XLSX/PDF links returned 404. Services-sector PDF (260 pp) only breaks out MSIC group 862 'Medical and dental practice activities', no dental-only count.
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_clinics_total.2024
Healthcare Staff by State and Staff Type (public sector, MOH)
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health Malaysia via data.gov.my (Public Sector Open Data)
- URL
- https://data.gov.my/data-catalogue/healthcare_staff
- Update cadence
- Annual; last updated 2024-09-01, data to 2022, next update N/A
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Dataset-level licence on the catalogue page covers the dataset including commercial reuse; credit the publisher/data.gov.my and link the licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Counts active public-sector (MOH) staff at 31 Dec each year; excludes private sector.
- Facts using this source
- my.dentists_practising.2022, my.dentists_practising.2022, my.hospitals_with_dental_dept.2024
KKMNOW dashboard: Health Accounts (SHA 2011), using WHO Global Health Expenditure Database
- Publisher
- Health Transformation Office, Ministry of Health Malaysia (data: WHO GHED)
- URL
- https://data.moh.gov.my/dashboard/sha-2011
- Update cadence
- Follows WHO GHED releases; health care function (HC) breakdown for 2020-2021 only
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Dashboard states the WHO GHED-based data are under the non-commercial, share-alike IGO licence (used under WHO terms), so no commercial redistribution.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Values read from the page's embedded JSON (__NEXT_DATA__ payload.dims.hc.values). data.moh.gov.my has no robots.txt (404).
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_spend_total_usd.2021, my.self_pay_share_of_dental_spend_pct.2021
Malaysia National Health Accounts: Health Expenditure Report 2011-2022
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health Malaysia (MNHA Unit, Planning Division), hosted on storage.data.gov.my
- URL
- https://storage.data.gov.my/healthcare/pub/mnha_2022.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual report (2022 edition latest found)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Translated: users may copy, publish, distribute, adapt and use data commercially if they credit the source and link the terms; excludes personal data, logos and third-party rights. Terms are the portal-wide ones (data.gov.my footer states CC BY 4.0); these PDFs state no licence of their own.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- 131-page PDF. Table 9.2b/9.2c OOP to private dental clinics; Table A3.3 GHED dental outpatient curative care (RM million) to 2020; Table A3.4 exchange rate.
- Facts using this source
- my.chairside_cadcam_installed_base.2024, my.clear_aligner_cases_annual.2024, my.dental_3d_printer_installed_base.2024, my.implant_procedures_annual.2024, my.ios_installed_base.2024, my.oral_appliance_reimbursement.2024
Malaysian Qualifications Register (MQR)
- Publisher
- Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA)
- URL
- https://www2.mqa.gov.my/mqr/english/eakrResult.cfm
- Update cadence
- Continuous (register)
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- MQA site footer says copyright reserved and the disclaimer page grants no reuse (requires written request even for use of MQA name/logo); MQR register data has no open licence.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Public search form (POST). robots.txt on www2.mqa.gov.my allows all. Query used: BidangOper=0911 (Dental studies). Lists accredited programmes including historical accreditation rows.
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_schools_total.2026
Ministry of Health Malaysia (Health Facts)
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health Malaysia
- URL
- https://www.moh.gov.my/
- Update cadence
- To be confirmed
- Licence status
- unknown
- Licence note
- moh.gov.my returned Access Denied (Akamai) to curl; terms not read.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- HTTP 403 to automated fetch; Health Facts publication location to be confirmed.
- Facts using this source
- none yet
Petunjuk Kesihatan / Health Indicators 2022
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health Malaysia (Health Informatics Centre, Planning Division), hosted on storage.data.gov.my
- URL
- https://storage.data.gov.my/healthcare/pub/health_indicators_2022.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual (editions 2014-2022 on storage.data.gov.my; 2023+ not found there)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Translated: users may copy, publish, distribute, adapt and use data commercially if they credit the source and link the terms; excludes personal data, logos and third-party rights. Terms are the portal-wide ones (data.gov.my footer states CC BY 4.0); these PDFs state no licence of their own.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Bilingual MOH yearbook. Table 4.3 MOH dental facilities; Table 4.4 private licensed/registered facilities incl. private dental clinics; Table 4.21 dentists by sector (MDC data); 4.27 dental therapists; dental technologists and DSAs public sector only. No count of hospitals with dental departments.
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_clinics_total.2022, my.dental_clinics_total.2022
Population at national level 1970-2026 (population_malaysia)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) via data.gov.my / OpenDOSM
- URL
- https://data.gov.my/data-catalogue/population_malaysia
- Update cadence
- Annual (intercensal mid-year estimates)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Dataset-level licence on the catalogue page covers the dataset including commercial reuse; credit the publisher/data.gov.my and link the licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Values in thousands. Census years 2020 etc.; other years intercensal mid-year estimates (cohort-component).
- Facts using this source
- my.dentists_per_100k.2024-dosm [series break 2024], my.population.2026, my.population.2024
Q & M Dental Group (Singapore) Limited Annual Report 2024
- Publisher
- Q & M Dental Group (SGX-listed), via SGXNet
- URL
- https://links.sgx.com/1.0.0/corporate-announcements/0G85RNZT6NI0B1UB/840261_QnM-AR2024.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- No licence or reuse statement found; the URL given is the document itself. Treated as all rights reserved (default copyright). Company annual report (2024) filed on SGXNet; no licence or reuse statement found in the PDF, and the SGX terms page is a JavaScript app that did not render, so treat as all rights reserved; cite by link only.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Industry/company source, tier 2 only. Malaysian clinic count for DSO lead.
- Facts using this source
- my.dso_clinic_share_pct.2024
Statistics from Malaysian Dental Council - 2024 (10-page MDC statistics sheet, edition dated July 2025), listed under the MDC website menu Statistic > Statistic MDC
- Publisher
- Malaysian Dental Council (Majlis Pergigian Malaysia), Oral Health Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia
- URL
- https://hq.moh.gov.my/ohp/mdc/statistic/mdc-annual-report.html
- Update cadence
- Annual (statistics sheet; 2024 edition dated July 2025)
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Footer states copyright reserved (Malay: 'Hakcipta Terpelihara') by the Oral Health Programme, MOH Malaysia; no open-data licence found; the PDF itself carries no licence; cite by link only.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- 10-page PDF: new registrants by section/country/local institution 2014-2024, register vs APC 2024, active practitioners by sector 2014-2024, APC by state, specialists. Read 2026-11-09 via the fetch tool (hq.moh.gov.my has no robots.txt; curl gets 403 without a browser UA; leader ruling L2). The PDF was served from a per-request signed doclink URL, which is not cited (token removed 2026-11-10 at leader request); the stable citation is the MDC Statistic page. As of 2026-11-10 that page links the newer 'MDC Statistic 2025.pdf' on Google Drive and no longer links the 2024 edition; Google Drive's download hosts disallow crawlers in robots.txt, so the quotes cannot be re-read from the page today. Quotes were verified against the 2024 edition fetched 2026-11-09 (desk C working copy). Re-source to the 2025 edition when a human-downloaded copy is available.
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_graduates_annual.2024, my.dental_graduates_annual.2023, my.dental_schools_total.2024, my.dentists_per_100k.2024-mdc [series break 2024], my.dentists_practising.2024, my.dentists_practising.2023, my.dentists_practising.2022-mdc, my.dentists_specialists_total.2024, my.dentists_total.2024-mdc [series break 2024]
The dental workforce in Malaysia: drivers for change from the perspectives of key stakeholders (Int Dent J 2020;70:360, doi:10.1111/idj.12575)
- Publisher
- International Dental Journal (FDI), full text on PubMed Central PMC9379166
- URL
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9379166/
- Update cadence
- One-off (peer-reviewed article, published 2020-11-20)
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Article page shows a publisher copyright line and no Creative Commons licence; PMC says reuse beyond fair use needs the copyright owner's permission.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Qualitative study; background section cites MDC Annual Report 2014 and OHD sources for workforce figures.
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_graduates_annual.2014, my.dental_public_coverage.2020, my.dental_schools_total.2010, my.osa_prevalence_adult_pct.2024
WHO Global Health Observatory: National Health Workforce Accounts (dentists, dental assistants and therapists, dental prosthetic technicians) and oral health expenditure, Malaysia
- Publisher
- World Health Organization (GHO OData API; NHWA data portal December 2025 update)
- URL
- https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/HWF_0011?$filter=SpatialDim%20eq%20'MYS'
- Update cadence
- Annual NHWA updates
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- WHO site-wide terms read; no GHO-specific data licence found on pages fetched, so non-commercial and permission-for-substantial-reproduction terms applied conservatively; cite by link and credit WHO with URL. A dataset-level licence (e.g. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO) was not verified.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Country-reported NHWA data. Indicators: HWF_0011 dentists (number), HWF_0010 dentists per 10,000, HWF_0012 dental assistants and therapists (number), HWF_0013 dental prosthetic technicians (number).
- Facts using this source
- my.dental_hygienists_total.2023, my.dental_technicians_total.2024, my.dental_technicians_total.2024, my.dentists_per_100k.2024 [series break 2024], my.dentists_total.2024 [series break 2024], my.dentists_total.2023 [series break 2024]
World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
- Publisher
- World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others)
- URL
- https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json
- Update cadence
- Annual (last updated 2026-10-08 when fetched)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial under CC BY 4.0 with attribution in the form 'The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source'; sub-licensees must carry the same attribution; applies unless indicated otherwise in the indicator metadata. Underlying sources (UN WPP, national offices, Eurostat) are listed in the indicator metadata; check for source-specific terms.
- Notes
- Cross-country per-capita denominator (DECISIONS L5). No series for Taiwan.
- Facts using this source
- ae.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, au.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, jp.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, kr.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], nz.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, qa.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, sa.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, sg.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, th.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, vn.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl
World Development Indicators: GDP per capita (current US$), NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, Malaysia
- Publisher
- World Bank
- URL
- https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/MY/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?format=json&per_page=5
- Update cadence
- Annual (WDI last updated 2026-10-08)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial under CC BY 4.0 with attribution in the form 'The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source'; sub-licensees must carry the same attribution; applies unless indicated otherwise in the indicator metadata.
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- my.gdp_per_capita_usd.2025