PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s headline inflation rate remained at 1.5% in December 2023, with the consumer price index (CPI) recorded at 131.2 points versus 129.2 a year earlier, said the statistics department.
PETALING JAYA: The unit price index of steel increased between 0.2% and 1.8% for almost all areas in December 2023 compared to the previous month, said the statistics department.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s total trade for November 2023 reached RM231.8 billion, with exports and imports recorded at RM122.1 billion and RM109.7 billion respectively, said the statistics department based on its Export-Import Statistics by State November 2023 report.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s producer price index (PPI), which measures the prices of goods at the factory gate, continued its downtrend in November 2023 with a larger year-on-year (y-o-y) contraction of 1.5% compared with 0.3% in October.
The labour force participation rate has increased to 67.1% from 65.8% in 2021, says Chief Statistician Uzir Mahidin.
(FMT) - The Bumiputera population is estimated at 21.3 million or 63.9% of the 33.4 million population in Malaysia this year, according to the Bumiputera Statistics 2023 released by