Malaysia PESTLE Insights – A Macroeconomic Outlook Report

Mining, manufacturing and utilities activities contributed 34.3% to the gross value added (GVA) in 2022, followed by wholesale, retail and hotels (17.7%), and transport, storage and communications (10.9%). These sectors are expected to grow by 7.2%, 8.7% and 9.8%, respectively, in 2023.

Four major states (Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching and Johor) contributed 61.2% of the country’s GDP in 2022 and comprised 35.5% of Malaysia’s population in 2022, according to MarketLine’s cities database.

Scope

– The Malaysian government allocated $20.43 billion for infrastructure construction in 2023. With this budget, a total of 7,615 development projects of all kinds are slated for completion in 2023, a 25.7% increase from 2022.

Reasons to buy

- Macroeconomic Outlook Report identifies the potentials of the country as an investment destination by analyzing the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure.

- PESTLE Insights provides 360 degree view of the economy which can be used as a strategic tool to understand the market dynamics, business potentials and direction of operations

- Along with providing the country’s snapshot, the report captures the risk factors pertaining to the macroeconomic risks, political environment, legal environment, demographic and social structure effectiveness, technology & infrastructure and natural and geographic aspects that might impact business.

- This report also highlights key clusters/cities which contribute significantly to the country GDP and population along with major companies’ presence in these areas.

Companies mentioned

Maxis

Petronas

Hershey

UTM

Table of Contents

List of Exhibits

Did You Know?

Country Highlights

Key Economic Updates

Country Snapshot

Political Landscape

Economic Landscape

Social Landscape

Technological Landscape

Legal Landscape

Environmental Landscape

Outlook

List of Tables

Exhibit 1: Malaysia’s performance in terms of its country risk analysis in comparison to Asia Pacific and the World

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (Score: 1-100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: KLCI index (March 2022 – March 2023)

Exhibit 5: Key sectors contribution to the economy (2018-25f)

Exhibit 6: Domestic and foreign investment by sector (2021-22)

Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI projects and net cross border M&A deals in Malaysia (2017-21)

Exhibit 8: Key infrastructure indicators

Exhibit 9: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2018-25f)

Exhibit 10: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2022)

Exhibit 11: Exports, imports and trade balance (2018-25f)

Exhibit 12: Current account balance (2018-25f)

Exhibit 13: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports, (2018-22)

Exhibit 14: Electrical machinery and parts thereof % share of world’s total (2022)

Exhibit 15: Interest rates (March 2018 – March 2023)

Exhibit 16: Exchange rate and inflation (2018-25f)

Exhibit 17: General government deficit (2018-25f)

Exhibit 18: General government debt (2018-25f)

Exhibit 19: Unemployment rate (2018-25f)

Exhibit 20: Average annual wages (2018-25f)

Exhibit 21: Labor cost index (2018-25f)

Exhibit 22: Rural/urban share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 23: Age-group share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 24: Gender split (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 25: Internet users as a percentage of total population, mobile penetration rate and broadband penetration rate (2022)

Exhibit 26: Number of patents granted per million population (2021)

Exhibit 27: High-technology exports, % of manufactured exports (2021)

Exhibit 28: Rule of law (rankings), 2022

Exhibit 29: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2022)

Exhibit 30: Renewable energy capacity (2017-21)

Exhibit 31: CO2 emissions (2017-21)

List of Figures

List of Figures

Exhibit 1: Malaysia’s performance in terms of its country risk analysis in comparison to Asia Pacific and the World

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (Score: 1-100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: KLCI index (March 4, 2021 – March 4, 2022)

Exhibit 5: Key sectors contribution to the economy (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 6: Total private capital investments (2020-2021) and investment performance (2021)

Exhibit 7: Cross border mergers and acquisitions (2017-2020), announced greenfield investments (2017-2020) and investments by top five states (2021)

Exhibit 8: Key infrastructure indicators

Exhibit 9: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 10: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2021)

Exhibit 11: Exports, imports and trade balance (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 12: Current account balance (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 13: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports, (2017-2021)

Exhibit 14: Electrical machinery and parts thereof % share of world’s total (2020)

Exhibit 15: Interest rates (Jan 2017 – Jan 2022)

Exhibit 16: Exchange rate (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 17: General government net lending/borrowing (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 18: General government gross debt (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 19: Unemployment rate (2017-2024f))

Exhibit 20: Average annual wages (2017-2024f))

Exhibit 21: Labor cost index (2017-2024f)

Exhibit 22: Rural/urban share of total population (2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 23: Age-group share of total population (2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 24: Gender split (2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 25: Internet users as a % of total population, mobile and broadband penetration rates (2021)

Exhibit 26: Number of patents granted per million people (2020)

Exhibit 27: High technology exports, % of manufactured exports (2020)

Exhibit 28: Doing business in Malaysia 2020

Exhibit 29: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2021)

Exhibit 30: Renewable energy, installed capacity (2016-2020)

Exhibit 31: CO2 emissions (2016-2020)

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