: 1.4%
highest 10%: 39.2% (2003 est.)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

46.1 (2002)

Investment (gross fixed):

21.7% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $40.69 billion
expenditures: $46.7 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

41.6% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

2%
note: approximately 30% of goods are price-controlled (2007 est.)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

6.41% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$49.41 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$187.6 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$220 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa, rice; Sabah -
subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber,
pepper, timber

Industries:

Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and
manufacturing, light manufacturing, electronics, tin mining and
smelting, logging, timber processing; Sabah - logging, petroleum
production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production
and refining, logging

Industrial production growth rate:

3.3% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

102.9 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

95.98 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

2.524 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 89.5%
hydro: 10.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

753,700 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption:

501,100 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

546,300 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

308,500 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

4 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

64.5 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

32.9 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

31.6 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

2.35 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

$28.93 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$176.4 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

electronic equipment, petroleum and liquefied natural gas, wood and
wood products, palm oil, rubber, textiles, chemicals

Exports - partners:

US 15.6%, Singapore 14.6%, Japan 9.1%, Ch