East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
23.9%
+1.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.04%
-1.7 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
70.5%
of GDP · +32 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
36.0m
77.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Malaysia yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 1.2% to 2.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 2.8% to 1.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 4.3% to 7.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then fell to 3.5% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 22.6% to 30.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then fell to 23.9% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 38.2% to 70.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Population grew from 20.3 million in 1995 to 36.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 44.3 million by 2050.