A total of 827,921 Malaysians are barred from leaving the country as they were blacklisted by Immigration Department for various offences since 2011, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

This includes 200,727 people blacklisted for bankruptcy and 118,892 people blacklisted for offences involving education loans, he said in his capacity as home minister.

"A total of 520 people were barred from leaving country for security offices and 507,782 people (were barred) for other offences," Zahid said in a parliamentary reply on March 10.

He was responding to Er Tech Hwa (DAP-Bakri) who asked for numbers of those who had been barred from leaving the country and the reasons.

"Those blacklisted are barred from leaving the country unless they have obtained the permission from the authority (to travel abroad)," Zahid said.