Healthcare remains in inadequate supply throughout most of the SEA region. The shortage෴ is especially evident in healthcare human resources; for instance, apart from Malaysia and China,🐷 all the countries in the SEA region have fewer than 1 physician ...

The agriculture sector contributed 7.3% to Malaysia’s GDP in 2019, down from 8.3% in 2015 and 10% in 2010. With a share of 36.5💙%, palm oil was tꦐhe major contributor to agricultural sector GDP in 2019, followed by livestock (15.9%), and fishing ...

Malaysia’s banking sector is dominated by local banks that controlled 80% of total sector assets ಞas of end-2019. A third of the 53 banks operat⛎ing in the country in 2019 were foreign owned. Out of the total, 26 are commercial banks, 16 are ...

Malaysia is a global Iꩲslamic finance leader. Thus, in Malaysia, takaful operators, which provide insurance contracts modified to be compliant with Shariah principles, compete directly with conventional insurers. The first modern insurance company was ...

Malaysia’s transport and storage GDP recorded robust growth in 2019 despite the slower overall econ🀅omic activities. Main sector performance indicators showed positive and healthy growth in 2019, except for rail passenger volume and air cargo ...

The ICT sector is in a dynamic environment, as it is in the midst of evolving technology, changing🥂 government policy, heightened competition and shifting consumer demand. The focus on the ICT sector has increased as it is the key enabler of ...

Malaysia is the third largest motor vehicle market in the ASEAN region, after Thailand and Indonesia. Passenger vehic💖les represented 50.7% and 49.8% of total production and sales, respectively, in 2018. Malaysia has two national brands, Perodua and ...

The dev🉐elopment of E&E manufacturing has been key to Malaysia&🍷rsquo;s transition from an agricultural to a manufacturing-based economy, and the consumer electronics sector has been an important driver of that transformation. Malaysia is a global ...

Malaysia has one of the most developed pharmaceuticals and healthcare secꦫt♌ors in the ASEAN region. The country operates a dual public-private healthcare system in which the government, under the Ministry of Health (“MoH”), both regulates ...

Total household expenditures in Malaysia have been growing at a CAGR of 9.4% from 2014 to 2018, reflecting a still-growing cons𒅌umer goods and retail sector despite a turbulent political environment that saw Malaysia’s first change of government ...