Malaysia GDP per Capita
The economy's output in a full calendar year divided by the number of people living there that year: the usual measure of average living standards.
RM56.3k
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2015 to 2025
Source: Calculated: GDP for each complete calendar year divided by that year's population. GDP: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) quarterly GDP, OpenDOSM gdp_qtr_nominal · GDP at current prices, RM million, not seasonally adjusted, quarterly. Population: World Bank · Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL).
Malaysia GDP per Capita in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the GDP per capita rose by RM1.9k in 2025, from RM54.4k in 2024.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in 2015.
Over the past five years it has ranged from RM41.9k in 2020 to RM56.3k in 2025.
Malaysia is 48th of 61 countries in our GDP per Capita by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
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- Source
- Calculated: GDP for each complete calendar year divided by that year's population. GDP: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) quarterly GDP, OpenDOSM gdp_qtr_nominal
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- MYR
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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