Overview

Introduction

This publication presents statistics on the Food and beverage services obtained from the Economic Census in 2023 for the reference year 2022. The Food and beverage services comprises Food services, Event catering services and Beverage services. The main statistics presented in this publication include number of establishments, value of gross output, value of intermediate input, value added, number of persons engaged, salaries & wages and value of fixed assets.

Performance of Food and Beverage Services, 2022

In 2022, the number of establishments for Food and beverage services recorded a decline of 2.9 per cent, with 136,453 establishments compared to 167,490 establishments in 2015. This decrease was due to the outbreak of Covid-19 that hit the country starting in 2020. However, this sub-sector generated a value of gross output RM99.0 billion and value of intermediate input RM55.1 billion.

Subsequently, total value added for these services was RM43.8 billion. For number of persons engaged, this sub-sector recorded a total of 1,079,843 persons in 2022 with salaries & wages of RM15.5 billion. Meanwhile, the value of fixed assets owned by establishments in the Food and beverage services registered RM12.6 billion in 2022. 

Food and beverage services showed that the majority of paid full-time employees were low-skilled workers, with 340,465 persons. The second highest composition was semi-skilled workers, with a total of 261,846 persons (37.8%) and followed by skilled workers with a total of 90,123 persons in 2022.

The performance by state showed that Selangor recorded the highest number of establishments with 24,625 establishments (18.0%), followed by Johor with 15,727 establishments (11.5%) and W.P. Kuala Lumpur with 13,849 establishments (10.1%).  

The full publication of the Economic Census 2023 for Food and Beverage Services can be downloaded through eStatistik on the DOSM portal, www.dosm.gov.my.

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