Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Malaysia attracted a record 65.9 billion MYR (15.9 billion USD) in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2025, up 41.2% from 46.7 billion MYR in 2024, reflecting sustained foreign investor confidence in the country's economy, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
The increase was driven by stronger foreign equity investment and inflows into debt instruments. Malaysia's cumulative FDI stock rose to 1.087 trillion MYR by the end of 2025, equivalent to 53.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 51.4% a year earlier.
The services sector remained the main recipient of FDI, attracting 59.5 billion MYR, followed by mining and quarrying with 3 billion MYR and manufacturing with 2.6 billion MYR. Within services, information and communications accounted for more than half of total inflows, reflecting growing investment in digital infrastructure and data centres, while financial services drew 26.1 billion MYR.
Manufacturing generated the highest FDI income at 55.5 billion MYR. By the end of the year, services and manufacturing accounted for the largest shares of Malaysia's FDI stock, valued at 596.7 billion MYR and 419.3 billion MYR, respectively.
Asia remained Malaysia's largest source of FDI, contributing 73.2 billion MYR in net inflows and accounting for a cumulative investment stock of 679.2 billion MYR./.
