Malaysia GDP Annual Growth Rate
How much bigger or smaller the economy is than a year earlier, adjusted for inflation.
6.0%
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Q1 2016 to Q2 2026
Source: DOSM quarterly GDP, OpenDOSM gdp_qtr_real · real GDP, change on the same quarter a year earlier, as published.
Malaysia GDP Annual Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the GDP annual growth rate rose by 1.4pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 4.6% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −4.2% in Q3 2021 to 16.3% in Q2 2021.
Its average since Q1 2016 is 4.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- DOSM quarterly GDP, OpenDOSM gdp_qtr_real
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
This is DOSM's headline growth figure.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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