The Malaysian economy stalled from the previous quarter in Q1 2026, marking the weakest performance since Q4 2022, following an upwardly revised 1.4% expansion in Q4. GDP Growth Rate in Malaysia averaged 1.15 percent from 2000 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 18.20 percent in the third quarter of 2020 and a record low of -14.70 percent in the second quarter of 2020. source: Department of Statistics, Malaysia
GDP Growth Rate in Malaysia is expected to be 2.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Malaysia GDP Growth Rate is projected to trend around -0.20 percent in 2027 and 0.40 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.