Malaysia Employment Rate
The share of working-age people who are in work.
68.8%
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Jan 2011 to Jul 2026
Source: DOSM labour force survey, OpenDOSM lfs_month · employment-to-population ratio, not seasonally adjusted, monthly, from January 2011.
Malaysia Employment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the employment rate rose by 0.2pp over the year to Jul 2026, from 68.6% in Jul 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 65.0% in Jul 2021 to 68.8% in Aug 2025.
Its average since Jan 2011 is 66.0%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- DOSM labour force survey, OpenDOSM lfs_month
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Jul 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
DOSM's seasonally adjusted table does not carry this ratio, so it is shown unadjusted.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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