Government Debt / Malaysia
Malaysia Government Debt
Malaysia government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 64.57%.
COUNTRY: Malaysia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-13 04:45:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Malaysia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
70 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
9.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
20.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Malaysia · government debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
64.57%
Previous
64.28%
Range avg.
57.34%
Rank
22
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CountryMalaysia
IndicatorGovernment Debt
64.57%2024 · Rank 22
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Malaysia recorded 64.57% for Government Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.28 percentage points, from 64.28% to 64.57%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (57.34%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 50.05% in 2017 and the high was 64.57% in 2024.
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