The four national censuses conducted between 1957 and 1980 show that Malaysia had a population of about 1.5 million Hakka, making them the nation's second-largest Chinese ethnicity after the Fujianese.
1957 年至 1980 年的 4 次人口普查數據顯示，客家人已是馬來西亞華人的第二大族群，約有 150 萬人，僅次於福建社群。