How We Source Sabah Statistics — Under Review
How we source Sabah statistics
This page used to set out how we sourced, checked and dated the statistics in this section. In August 2026 we audited those pages and found that the process described here was not the process we had actually followed. A number of figures could not be traced to any published source, and several charts credited data to organisations that had not produced it.
Rather than leave a description of good practice sitting on top of work that did not meet it, we have taken the page down. It will come back when the section behind it genuinely works the way this page said it did.
What we are doing about it
We are working through every statistics page against its original sources. Headline figures have been re-checked and corrected where they were wrong. Figures further down each page are still being verified, and affected pages carry a notice saying so.
Where a number cannot be traced to a published source, we are removing it rather than rewording it. A precise-looking figure with nothing behind it is worse than no figure, because people cite it.
The sources index remains accurate and lists the primary sources — DOSM, MPOB, Sabah Parks, Sabah Tourism Board and others — with direct links. If you want to check something yourself, start there.
If you spot something wrong
Please tell us. Every page has a report link, and corrections with a source attached are especially useful. Reader reports are part of how this section gets fixed.