Economic Policy & Debt · Malaysia
Yearly data from 1960 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Malaysia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) was 61.63% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 7.67 percentage points from 53.96% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 61.63% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 61.01% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 53.96% | 2015 |
| Highest | 66.69% | 1962 |
| Lowest | 41.56% | 1998 |
| Average since 2016 | 58.69% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 61.95% | 1960 |
Over five years it is up 0.62 percentage points from 61.01% in 2020. Since 1960 it is down 0.32 percentage points from 61.95% in 1960.
In 2025, Malaysia's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) rose 0.87 percentage points on 2024 (from 60.76% to 61.63%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.42 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.14 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.2 percentage points in 1976. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.64 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 64% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2025, Malaysia had the 67th highest value of the 130 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 61.63% | 2025 |
| World | 56.59% | 2024 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 45.36% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 48.8% | 2024 |
This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Limitations: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Household final consumption expenditure is often estimated as a residual, by subtracting all other known expenditures from GDP. The resulting aggregate may incorporate fairly large discrepancies.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.63 |
| 2024 | 60.76 |
| 2023 | 60.46 |
| 2022 | 57.61 |
| 2021 | 58.01 |
| 2020 | 61.01 |
| 2019 | 59.77 |
| 2018 | 57.43 |
| 2017 | 55.39 |
| 2016 | 54.79 |
| 2015 | 53.96 |
| 2014 | 52.42 |
| 2013 | 51.81 |
| 2012 | 49.65 |
| 2011 | 47.97 |
| 2010 | 48.12 |
| 2009 | 48.84 |
| 2008 | 44.71 |
| 2007 | 45.15 |
| 2006 | 44.33 |
| 2005 | 44.19 |
| 2004 | 44 |
| 2003 | 44.58 |
| 2002 | 45.01 |
| 2001 | 46.12 |
| 2000 | 43.75 |
| 1999 | 41.58 |
| 1998 | 41.56 |
| 1997 | 45.35 |
| 1996 | 46.03 |
| 1995 | 47.92 |
| 1994 | 48.14 |
| 1993 | 48.29 |
| 1992 | 50.27 |
| 1991 | 52.18 |
| 1990 | 51.8 |
| 1989 | 50 |
| 1988 | 49.2 |
| 1987 | 48.18 |
| 1986 | 50.98 |
| 1985 | 52 |
| 1984 | 49.77 |
| 1983 | 51.75 |
| 1982 | 53.08 |
| 1981 | 53.1 |
| 1980 | 50.55 |
| 1979 | 48.26 |
| 1978 | 51.69 |
| 1977 | 51.99 |
| 1976 | 52.39 |
| 1975 | 58.6 |
| 1974 | 55.89 |
| 1973 | 55.06 |
| 1972 | 60.57 |
| 1971 | 61.07 |
| 1970 | 59.98 |
| 1969 | 59.93 |
| 1968 | 63 |
| 1967 | 63.73 |
| 1966 | 59.87 |
| 1965 | 60.18 |
| 1964 | 62.67 |
| 1963 | 63.76 |
| 1962 | 66.69 |
| 1961 | 65.92 |
| 1960 | 61.95 |
Every indicator for Malaysia is on the Malaysia data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.PRVT.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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