a financial crisis over the near term
similar to the one in 1997. The economy remains dependent on
continued growth in the US, China, and Japan - top export
destinations and key sources of foreign investment.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$308.8 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$131.8 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.5% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$12,700 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 8.3%
industry: 48.1%
services: 43.6% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
10.73 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 14.5%
industry: 36%
services: 49.5% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate:
3.5% (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
8% (1998 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.4%
highest 10%: 39.2% (2003 est.)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
49.2 (1997)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.8% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
19.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $31.63 billion
expenditures: $37 billion; including capital expenditures of $9.4
billion (2006 est.)

Public debt:
46.7% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa, rice; Sabah -
subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber,
pepper, timber

Industries:
Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and
manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining
and smelting, logging, timber processing; Sabah - logging, petroleum
production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production
and refining, logging

Industrial production growth rate:
5.8% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
78.24 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 89.5%
hydro: 10.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
72.71 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
50 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
770,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
515,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
230,200 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2003)

Oil - proved reserves:
3.1 billion bbl (2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:
62.43 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
32.97 billion cu m (2004 est.)

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