Malaysia Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $28.4 billion (1984), $1,870 per capita; annual growth 5.0% (1984)

Natural resources: tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron

Agriculture: Peninsular Malaysia: natural rubber, oil palm, rice; 10-15% of rice requirements imported

Sabah: mainly subsistence; main crops— rubber, timber, coconut, rice; food deficit— rice ·

Sarawak: main crops—rubber, timber, pepper, food deficit—rice

Fishing- catch 741,000 metric tons (1983)

Major industries: Peninsular Malaysia: rubber and oil palm processing and

manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and smelting, logging and processing timber

Sabah: logging, petroleum production

Sarawak: agriculture processing, petroleum production and refining, logging

Electric power: Peninsular Malaysia: 2,732,000 kW capacity (1985); 10.382 billion kWh produced (1985), 808 kWh per capita

Sabah: 430,000 kW capacity (1985); 1,252 million kWh produced (1985), 1,010 kWh per capita

Sarawak: 350,000 kW capacity (1985); 1,019 million kWh produced (1985), 685 kWh per capita

Exports: $16.6 billion (f.o.b., 1984); natural rubber, palm oil, tin, timber, petroleum, light manufactures

Imports. $14.1 billion (c.i.f., 1984)

Major trade partners: exports—22%

Singapore, 20% Japan, 15% EC, 13% US; imports—25% Japan, 16% US, 14% EC, 14%

Singapore (1983)

Budget: 1985 operating expenditures, $9.1 billion; development expenditures, $2.8 billion; deficit, $2.7 billion

Monetary conversion rate-2.371 ringgits=US$l (September 1984)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Malaysia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Malaysia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Malaysia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.