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Malaysia’s Manufacturing sales value rose 19.5 per cent in September 2022, amounted to RM161.7 billion
Malaysia’s Manufacturing sales value in September 2022 stood at RM161.7 billion, grew 19.5 per cent as compared to the same month in 2021. The growth in sales value for September 2022 was driven by the Electrical & Electronics Products (24.7%), Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber & Plastic Products (27.2%) and Food, Beverages & Tobacco Products (7.1%) subsectors.
The total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in September 2022 was 2,316,961 persons, augmented 3.8 per cent as compared to 2,231,406 persons in September 2021. Meanwhile, the salaries & wages paid increased by 5.4 per cent or RM405.7 million amounting to RM7,884.5 million as against the same month of the preceding year.
The sales value per employee rose by 15.1 per cent to record RM69,787 as compared with the same month in 2021 while the average salaries & wages per employee was RM3,403.
In the third quarter 2022, the sales value of the Manufacturing sector surged 22.5 per cent to RM467.6 billion as compared to the same quarter of the previous year. The growth was driven by the Electrical & Electronics Products (25.5%), Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber & Plastics Products (24.4%) and Food, Beverages & Tobacco Products (13.0%) subsectors. The number of employees and salaries & wages improved 3.8 per cent and 6.7 per cent respectively in the third quarter of 2022.
For the period of January to September 2022, the sales value of the Manufacturing sector soared 17.6 per cent to RM1,326.3 billion as compared to the same period in 2021. The number of employees increased 3.8 per cent to 2.32 million persons while salaries & wages expanded 5.3 per cent to RM70.2 billion. Sales value per employee for similar period of year 2022 recorded RM572,452 with year on year growth of 13.3 per cent.
The full publication of the Monthly Manufacturing Statistics, September 2022 can be downloaded through eStatistik portal.
*Note
Data for September 2022 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the October 2022 publication.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA
8 November 2022
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