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Malaysia

Headline economic indicators for Malaysia, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 1.4% -0.45 (-24.7%)
Consumer price index · 134.6 +1.83 (+1.4%)
House price index (quarterly) · 232.4 -1.19 (-0.5%)
House price inflation, year on year (quarterly) · 0.9% -1.04 (-52.4%)
Real house price index (quarterly) · 169.6 -2.12 (-1.2%)
Real house price growth, year on year (quarterly) · -1.0% -1.41 (-339.8%)
GDP deflator inflation · -0.4% -1.24 (-156.9%)

GDP

GDP — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 5.2% +0.07 (+1.3%)
GDP per capita · 13,124.56 +1,250 (+10.5%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 26,629 +1,864 (+7.5%)
GDP · 472,193,128,644.6 +49,966,123,216 (+11.8%)
GDP, PPP · 1,492,996,614,458 +112,093,002,152 (+8.1%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 41,498 +2,662 (+6.9%)
GDP per capita growth · 3.9% +0.11 (+2.9%)
GNI per capita · 12,380 +730.00 (+6.3%)
Agriculture to GDP · 8.2% +0.09 (+1.1%)
Industry to GDP · 35.7% -1.31 (-3.5%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 22.1% -0.40 (-1.8%)
Services to GDP · 54.8% +1.11 (+2.1%)
Household consumption to GDP · 61.6% +0.87 (+1.4%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 20.5% -1.49 (-6.8%)
Gross savings to GDP · 22.0% -1.40 (-6.0%)

Labour

Labour — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 3.8% -0.08 (-2.1%)
Labour force participation rate · 66.1% +0.01 (+0.0%)
Female labour force participation rate · 51.6% +0.03 (+0.1%)
Youth unemployment rate · 12.0% -0.30 (-2.4%)
Employment to population ratio · 63.6% +0.07 (+0.1%)
Employment in agriculture · 9.2% -0.25 (-2.7%)
Employment in industry · 26.0% -0.05 (-0.2%)
Employment in services · 64.9% +0.30 (+0.5%)

Money

Money — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 5.3% +0.84 (+18.9%)
Central bank policy rate · 2.8% -0.25 (-8.3%)
Real effective exchange rate (monthly) · 104.4 -0.71 (-0.7%)
Nominal effective exchange rate (monthly) · 109.0 -0.46 (-0.4%)
Private sector credit to GDP (quarterly) · 158.9% +0.51 (+0.3%)
Credit-to-GDP gap (quarterly) · -2.78 pp +0.69 (+19.9%)
Debt service ratio, private sector (quarterly) · 15.5% +0.00 (+0.0%)
Broad money to GDP · 120.6% -0.11 (-0.1%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 117.9% +1.83 (+1.6%)
Lending rate · 4.8% -0.46 (-8.7%)
Bank deposit rate · 2.4% -0.23 (-8.5%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 103.2% -3.22 (-3.0%)
Bank nonperforming loans · 1.4% -0.07 (-5.2%)
Official exchange rate · 4.28 -0.29 (-6.4%)

Trade

Trade — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · 1.6% +0.20 (+14.0%)
Exports to GDP · 71.0% -0.37 (-0.5%)
Imports to GDP · 65.4% -0.59 (-0.9%)
Trade to GDP · 136.4% -0.97 (-0.7%)
Exports of goods and services · 335,105,024,619.41 +33,883,697,855 (+11.2%)
Imports of goods and services · 308,949,499,862.76 +30,188,955,831 (+10.8%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · 25,882,673,676.57 +3,981,995,973 (+18.2%)
Current account balance (annual) · 7,597,036,894.81 +1,636,025,715 (+27.4%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 4.6% +0.38 (+9.1%)
Remittances received to GDP · 1.9% +0.09 (+5.0%)
Total reserves, including gold · 125,629,250,346.16 +9,400,045,088 (+8.1%)
Reserves in months of imports · 4.3 -0.15 (-3.3%)

Government

Government — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 64.6% +0.28 (+0.4%)
Government revenue to GDP · 16.8% -0.47 (-2.7%)
Government expense to GDP · 17.0% -0.89 (-5.0%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 12.4% -0.13 (-1.1%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -4.1% +0.85 (+17.1%)
Government consumption to GDP · 12.4% +0.41 (+3.4%)
Education spending to GDP · 3.5% +0.02 (+0.4%)
Health spending to GDP · 4.0% +0.06 (+1.5%)

Demography

Demography — Malaysia
Indicator Value Change
Population · 35,977,838 +420,165 (+1.2%)
Population, long-run history · 32,956 +353.81 (+1.1%)
Population growth · 1.2% -0.05 (-3.8%)
Life expectancy · 76.8 +0.16 (+0.2%)
Fertility rate · 1.54 -0.01 (-0.5%)
Birth rate · 12.4 -0.05 (-0.4%)
Death rate · 5.3 +0.11 (+2.2%)
Urban population share · 77.4% +0.48 (+0.6%)
Population aged 65 and over · 8.0% +0.30 (+3.8%)
Under-five mortality rate · 8.3 +0.00 (+0.0%)
Population density · 108.2 +1.31 (+1.2%)
Net migration · 166,615 -8,155 (-4.7%)
Gini index · 40.7 -0.50 (-1.2%)

Source: Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Translated titles are not official BIS translations.

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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