Malaysia : Economic Statistics

Total Government Gross Debt (National Currency) for Malaysia in year 2010 is MYR 415.174 Billion. Gross debt consists of all liabilities that require payment or payments of interest and/or principal by the debtor to the creditor at a date or dates in the future. This includes debt liabilities in the form of SDRs, currency and deposits, debt securities, loans, insurance, pensions and standardized guarantee schemes, and other accounts payable. Thus, all liabilities in the GFSM 2001 system are debt, except for equity and investment fund shares and financial derivatives and employee stock options. Debt can be valued at current market, nominal, or face values (GFSM 2001, paragraph 7.110).

Current Account Balance (US Dollars) for Malaysia in year 2010 is US$ 28.119 Billion. Current account is all transactions other than those in financial and capital items. The major classifications are goods and services, income and current transfers. The focus of the BOP is on transactions (between an economy and the rest of the world) in goods, services, and income.

General government total expenditure (National Currency) for Malaysia in year 2010 is MYR 238.079 Billions. Total expenditure consists of total expense and the net acquisition of nonfinancial assets. Note: Apart from being on an accrual basis, total expenditure differs from the GFSM 1986 definition of total expenditure in the sense that it also takes the disposals of nonfinancial assets into account.

Population for Malaysia in year 2010 is 28.251 Million .

Unemployment Rate (% of Labour Force) for Malaysia in year 2010 is 3.3 %.

Inflation (End of Year Change %) for Malaysia in year 2010 is 2.354 %. Data for inflation are end of the period, not annual average data.

Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Malaysia in year 2010 is 33.113 %. Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign investment.

Investment (% of GDP) for Malaysia in year 2010 is 21.297 %. Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign investment.

GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) for Malaysia in year 2010 is MYR 765.966 Billion. GDP is expressed in billions of national currency units.

GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Malaysia in year 2010 is 7.156 %. Annual percentages of constant price GDP are year-on-year changes; the base year is country-specific.

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