Overview

HIGHLIGHTS

Manufacturing Sales registered RM60.5 billion in April 2017

Malaysia’s April manufacturing sales continues to record a strong growth of  15.6%, rising to RM60.5 billion as compared to RM52.3 billion reported a year ago.

Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in April 2017 was due to the  increase  in  Electrical  and  Electronics  Products  (17.3%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (18.2%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal (12.3%). These three sub-sectors contributed 80.1% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector.

Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in April 2017 was  1,047,310 persons, an increase of  2.6% or 26,346 persons as compared to 1,020,964 persons in April 2016.

Salaries & wages paid in April 2017 increased by  10.5% (RM330.2 million) to record  RM3,472.3 million.

Sales value per employee increased by  12.7% to record  RM57,757 as compared with the same month of the previous year.

*Notes:

Data for April 2017  is  provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the May 2017 publication.

Released By:

DR MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN
CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA

9 JUNE 2017

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