After that Malaysia was on a role and was not stopping. In the 1960's and 70's Malaysia became the worlds largest producer of palm oil and then oil and natural gas exporter in the 1980's. Between the 1960's and 90's Malaysia has significant economic growth with rates of 5% to 7% each year. .
Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia Peninsula and northern one-third on the island of Borneo bordering Indonesia and the South China Sea. The climate in Malaysia is tropical with frequent monsoons, because of these monsoons they experience flooding and landslides. The population today in Malaysia is 22,663,000 with only a population of 0.42% infected with the HIV virus. There are a few different ethnic groups there; mainly is Malay, Chinese, and Indians. The main religions there are; Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, and Christians. The official language in Malaysia is Buhasa Melayu and English is their secondary language. The legal system is based on English common law; judicial reviews of legislative acts in the Supreme Court at request of supreme head of the federation, they have not accepted compulsory jurisdiction.
Today Malaysia is now headed by a constitutional monarchy. A constitutional monarchy is simply; a political system in which the head of the state is a king or queen ruling to the extent allowed by a constitution. The Malaysian government in the 1960's decided they wanted to make their country prosperous and lower the poverty rate, so they placed subsidies for rice production to make peasant farmers self-sufficient. This plan did not work because the peasant farmers are still the poorest of the population in Malaysia today. In the 1970's and 80's any farmer that amounted to anything moved to urban areas to take advantage of employment in the rapidly growing manufacturing sector of the economy. In 1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad became the prime minister of Malaysia. Mohamad increased the government's role in the country's economy.
