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Malaysia’s Manufacturing sales value expanded 24.4 per cent in August 2022, amounted to RM157.4 billion

Malaysia’s Manufacturing sales value in August 2022 stood at RM157.4 billion, grew 24.4 per cent as compared to the same month in 2021. The growth in sales value for August 2022 was driven by Electrical & Electronics Products subsector (25.8%), Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber & Plastic Products subsector (27.6%) and Food, Beverages & Tobacco Products subsector (18.4%).

The total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in August 2022 was 2,309,353 persons, augmented 4.3 per cent as compared to 2,213,715 persons in August 2021. Meanwhile, the salaries & wages paid was also reported to have raised by 7.5 per cent or RM541.3 million amounting to RM7,771.3 million as against the same month of the preceding year.

The sales value per employee rose by 19.3 per cent to record RM68,174 as compared with the same month in 2021 while the average salaries & wages per employee was RM3,365.

For the period of January to August 2022, the sales value of the Manufacturing sector surged by 17.4 per cent to RM1,164.7 billion as compared to the same period in 2021. The number of employees increased 4.3 per cent to 2.31 million persons while salaries & wages expanded 5.3 per cent to RM62.3 billion. Sales value per employee for similar period of year 2022 recorded RM504,321 with year on year growth of 12.5 per cent.

The full publication of the Monthly Manufacturing Statistics, August 2022 can be downloaded through eStatistik portal.

*Note

             Data for August 2022 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the September 2022 publication.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA
12 October 2022

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