GDP: purchasing power parity - $229.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $10,700 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
12%
industry:
46%
services:
42% (1998)
Population below poverty line: 6.8% (1997 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.4%
highest 10%:
20.4% (1997 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (1999)
Labor force: 9.3 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: manufacturing 27%, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 16%, local trade and tourism 17%, services 15%, government 10%, construction 9% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 3% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$23.2 billion
expenditures:
$27.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999)
Industries: Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and smelting, logging and processing timber; Sabah - logging, petroleum production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production and refining, logging
Industrial production growth rate: 8.5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 57.435 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
94.78%
hydro:
5.22%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 53.423 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 75 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 83 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, rice; Sabah - subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber, pepper; timber
Exports: $83.5 billion (1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: electronic equipment, petroleum and liquefied natural gas, chemicals, palm oil, wood and wood products, rubber, textiles
Exports - partners: US 23%, Singapore 16%, Japan 11%, Hong Kong 5%, Netherlands 5%, Taiwan 5%, Thailand 3% (1999 est.)
Imports: $61.5 billion (1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, food, fuel and lubricants
Imports - partners: Japan 21%, US 18%, Singapore 14%, Taiwan 5%, South Korea 5%, Thailand 4%, China 3% (1999 est.)
Debt - external: $43.6 billion (1999 est.)
Currency: 1 ringgit (M$) = 100 sen
Exchange rates: ringgits (M$) per US$1 - 3.8000 (January 2000), 3.8000 (1999), 3.9244 (1998), 2.8133 (1997), 2.5159 (1996), 2.5044 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year