Tax Revenue / Malaysia
Malaysia Tax Revenue
Malaysia tax revenue data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 12.43%.
COUNTRY: Malaysia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-13 20:30:22
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 · tax revenue data as percent of GDP.
Latest
12.43%
Previous
12.56%
Range avg.
12.32%
Rank
70
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CountryMalaysia
IndicatorTax Revenue
12.43%2024 · Rank 70
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Malaysia recorded 12.43% for Tax Revenue in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.13 percentage points, from 12.56% to 12.43%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (12.32%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 10.88% in 2020 and the high was 14.06% in 2015.
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