Economy
01
The economy grew 6.0% last quarter.
DOSM's national accounts for Q2 2026, read live from the official open-data API: real GDP grew 6.0% on a year earlier, after +5.2% across 2025 as a whole. What the country produces, and how fast that is changing.
GDP growth · Q2 2026
+6.0%
real GDP against the same quarter a year earlier — DOSM's published rate
2025, the full year
+5.2%
annual real growth for the latest complete year in the accounts
GDP per person · 2025
RM50,707
at constant 2015 prices — 2.3 times the RM22,146 of 1995, a generation ago
Every quarter DOSM publishes a year-on-year rate for — 42 quarters, ending Q2 2026. These are the official rates, not our arithmetic.
Official latestQuarterly and yearly statistical releases, not live readings — each figure carries its period. The dataset also carries a quarter-on-quarter series, but it is not labelled seasonally adjusted, so this page leaves it out rather than mislabel it.
DOSM — gdp_qtr_real (quarterly real GDP, constant 2015 prices), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
DOSM's own published growth rates, quarterly from Q1 2015; the y-o-y series is shown. The q-o-q series is not labelled seasonally adjusted in the dataset, so this page does not display it. Rows run to Q2 2026; data as of 2026-Q2. A quarterly statistical release, not a live reading.
DOSM — gdp_gni_annual_real (annual real GDP & GNI with per-capita values), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Constant-price (2015 base) GDP, GNI and per-capita values from 1970; growth is DOSM's own annual y-o-y series, 1971–2025; data as of 2025. A yearly statistical release.
The long view
02
Down 4 years out of 55.
Annual real growth since 1971, straight from the accounts. The line crosses below zero in 1985 (-1.0%), 1998 (-7.4%), 2009 (-1.6%) and 2020 (-5.5%) — and nowhere else. Its best year is 1973, at +11.7%.
Year-on-year change in GDP at constant 2015 prices, 1971–2025— DOSM's own published growth series.
Sectors
03
Services is 60% of everything produced.
The supply side of the accounts for 2025, the latest year the sector dataset carries: services contributed RM1034 billion of the RM1737 billion total — 59.5% — with manufacturing next at 23.0%.
| Sector | Value added | Share of GDP |
|---|---|---|
| Services | RM1,034bn | 59.5% |
| Manufacturing | RM399bn | 23.0% |
| Agriculture | RM106bn | 6.1% |
| Mining & Quarrying | RM99bn | 5.7% |
| Construction | RM75bn | 4.3% |
| Import Duties | RM23bn | 1.3% |
Supply-side value added at constant 2015 prices, 2025; each share is of the dataset's own total, which the sector rows — import duties included — sum to exactly.
DOSM — gdp_annual_real_supply (annual real GDP by sector, supply side), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Sector value added at constant 2015 prices, 2025 the latest year the dataset carries. Shares are computed against the dataset's own total, which the sector rows sum to exactly; sector names come from the dataset's published dictionary. Data as of 2025.
Did you know
GDP per person: RM22,146 in 1995, RM50,707 in 2025.
Both figures are in the same constant-2015-prices ringgit, so the 2.3× is a real change in what the economy produces per person over a generation — not inflation. It is an average of output, not a wage; the deep data below says what it does and does not mean.
Computed from DOSM national accounts via OpenDOSM
The economy has shrunk in 4 of the 55 measured years.
1985 (-1.0%), 1998 (-7.4%), 2009 (-1.6%) and 2020 (-5.5%) — those are the only years since 1971 in which annual real GDP ended lower than the year before. Every other year in the series is positive.
Computed from DOSM national accounts via OpenDOSM
The fastest year on record is 1973, at +11.7%.
Against that yardstick, 2025's +5.2% ranks 38th of the 55 years the growth series covers. The slowest, 1998, sits at -7.4%.
Computed from DOSM national accounts via OpenDOSM
Deep data
03.3
Real ringgit, and what they don't say.
Every figure in this chapter is real GDP — output valued at constant 2015 prices, so growth means more goods and services, not higher price tags. A nominal series, valued at each year's own prices, would tell a different story about size; growth rates quoted in the news are almost always the real ones shown here.
Series start
1970
annual real GDP & GNI levels; the growth series begins 1971, the quarterly dataset Q1 2015
Cadence
Quarterly · yearly
statistical releases; the page refetches daily and shows its retrieval time
Latest quarter
Q2 2026
real GDP +6.0% on a year earlier — DOSM's published rate
Data as of
2026-Q2
the quarterly dataset's own stamp (its rows run to Q2 2026); annual as of 2025, sectors as of 2025
Real vs nominal
Real GDP strips price changes out by valuing every year's output at 2015 prices — the year the real and nominal accounts agree. That makes growth comparable across decades, and it is why the per-person figures here can be compared a generation apart without an inflation footnote.
Per capita is not a pay slip
GDP per person divides everything produced by everyone present. It says nothing about how output is shared between profits and wages, or between households. For what households actually receive, the state profiles on this site carry median household income from DOSM's Household Income Survey.
Three windows, one economy
The quarterly series starts in 2015 and is revised as annual benchmarks land; the annual series runs back to 1970 on one definition; the sector detail stops a couple of years earlier than both. The different windows are the datasets' own, and each figure above names its year.
DOSM — gdp_qtr_real (quarterly real GDP, constant 2015 prices), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
DOSM's own published growth rates, quarterly from Q1 2015; the y-o-y series is shown. The q-o-q series is not labelled seasonally adjusted in the dataset, so this page does not display it. Rows run to Q2 2026; data as of 2026-Q2. A quarterly statistical release, not a live reading.
DOSM — gdp_gni_annual_real (annual real GDP & GNI with per-capita values), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Constant-price (2015 base) GDP, GNI and per-capita values from 1970; growth is DOSM's own annual y-o-y series, 1971–2025; data as of 2025. A yearly statistical release.
DOSM — gdp_annual_real_supply (annual real GDP by sector, supply side), via the OpenDOSM / data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Sector value added at constant 2015 prices, 2025 the latest year the dataset carries. Shares are computed against the dataset's own total, which the sector rows sum to exactly; sector names come from the dataset's published dictionary. Data as of 2025.
GDP counts what the country produces; the chapters around it say who does the producing and what the proceeds buy. Next shelves: Employment and Cost of Living.