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).
As the digital landscape evolves, e-commerce continues to play an important role in driving business activities, particularly in expanding market access and enhancing the competitiveness of the Malaysian economy.
The flood-related losses in Malaysia were equivalent to 0.05 % of the nominal gross domestic product (GDP) last year, compared to 0.04% in the previous year.
Malaysia’s labour market continued to see improvements in 2022 with the unemployment rate dropping to 3.9 % and a higher employment rate, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Malaysia’s net inflows of foreign investment surged to 74.6 billion RM (16.17 billion USD) in 2022 from 50.4 billion RM in 2021, while investment abroad tripled to 58.6 billion RM from 19.4 billion RM, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) in a statement on June 16.
Malaysia’s labour market continued an upward trend following an improvement of the country’s economic situation, which is in line with the recovery of the global economy, according to Director of the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) Mohd Uzir Mahidin.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) has announced that the country’s wholesales and retail trade in December 2022 reached a record high of 137.3 billion RM (31.9 billion USD), up 13.8% year-on-year.
COVID-19 infection was the principal cause of death in Malaysia in 2021, at 31,063 deaths from the total of 157,251 medically certified fatalities reported, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Malaysia’s inflation rate in August increased to 4.7% year-on-year, mainly due to food and non-alcoholic beverages, according to the Malaysian Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Malaysia recorded 836.2 billion RM (over 188.1 billion USD) in foreign direct investment (FDI) at the end of the second quarter, up 24.1 billion RM from Q1, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia.
Malaysia’s foreign trade rose nearly 25% in 2021 to hit the 2 trillion RM (nearly 450 billion USD) mark for the first time after recording negative growth for two consecutive years, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).
The performance of the 2021 Malaysia Happiness Index (MHI) score was at 6.48 out of 10, reflecting a happy level, according to findings by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).
Malaysia's total trade recorded a growth rate of 27.3 percent year-on-year last month to reach a new high of 236.6 billion RM (55.69 billion USD), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) announced on April 18.
Malaysia's unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in December from 4.3 percent in the previous month, data of the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) showed.
Malaysia showed good performance in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in 2020 despite adverse impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the third series of the SDG Indicators Report released by the Department of Statistics Malaysia.
Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs)’s growth contracted by 7.3 percent in 2020 for the first time in the past 17 years, reported the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
Malaysia’s unemployment rate increased to 4.5 percent in 2020, the highest rate since 1993 when it was recorded at 4.1 percent, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).
