2019 GDP at 4.3%, lowest since 2009


Bank Negara says today Malaysia will look into a stimulus package as it deals with the Covid-19 outbreak. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, February 12, 2020.

MALAYSIA’S economy expanded by 3.6% in the fourth quarter of 2019, dragging the full-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 4.3%, the lowest since the 2009 financial crisis amid supply disruptions in the commodity sector.

“GDP growth for 2019 would have been higher at 4.7% without the supply disruptions in the commodity sector,” said Bank Negara governor Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus.


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