Malaysia - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in Malaysia was 648,475,000,000 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 648,475,000,000 in 2016 and a minimum value of 91,369,000,000 in 1995.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 94,713,000,000
1991 99,072,000,000
1992 97,005,000,000
1993 95,898,000,000
1994 93,078,000,000
1995 91,369,000,000
2002 164,963,000,000
2003 188,767,000,000
2004 216,624,000,000
2005 228,670,000,000
2006 242,225,000,000
2007 266,722,000,000
2008 306,437,000,000
2009 362,386,000,000
2010 407,101,000,000
2011 456,128,000,000
2012 501,617,000,000
2013 539,858,000,000
2014 582,828,000,000
2015 630,540,000,000
2016 648,475,000,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in Malaysia was 51.89 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 79.54 in 1990, while its lowest value was 39.80 in 2008.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 79.54
1991 73.32
1992 64.38
1993 55.69
1994 47.62
1995 41.07
2002 43.05
2003 45.08
2004 45.70
2005 42.07
2006 40.59
2007 40.09
2008 39.80
2009 50.84
2010 49.56
2011 50.03
2012 51.65
2013 53.00
2014 52.68
2015 53.57
2016 51.89

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance