Malaysia
- Region
- Asia · South-Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Kuala Lumpur
- Population
- 35,977,838 (2025)
- Government
- federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Currency
- Malaysian ringgit (MYR)
- Official languages
- English, Malay
- Spoken languages
- Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 330,803 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, ASEAN, IMF, OIC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Brunei , Indonesia , Thailand
Political stability
72 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
54 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- integrated circuits, refined petroleum, crude petroleum, natural gas, palm oil (2023)
- Key imports
- integrated circuits, refined petroleum, crude petroleum, coal, broadcasting equipment (2023)
- Natural resources
- tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite
- Primary route
- Port Klang and Tanjung Pelepas transshipment on the Strait of Malacca
- Secondary route
- Intra-Asia feeder network
The xin.bz view
- Malaysia holds a useful near-term buffer: July palm-oil stocks reached about 2.63M t, a five-month high, with production strong — while haze from Indonesian fires has closed schools and pressured plantation operations.
- Lynas Malaysia is the largest rare-earth separation plant outside China and now produces separated dysprosium and terbium oxides — one of the few working alternatives to the Chinese heavy-REE chokepoint.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Cerium Is the High-Volume Rare Earth That Powers Catalysts, Glass Polishing, Emissions Control, and Chemical Manufacturing
Cerium deep dive — the high-volume light rare earth behind catalysts, glass polishing, and emissions control, with Chinese separation capacity as the systemic chokepoint.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Dysprosium Is the Heat-Resistance Rare Earth That Keeps High-Performance Magnets Working Under Stress
Dysprosium deep dive — the heat-resistance additive high-performance magnets depend on, fed by Chinese and Myanmar heavy-REE supply with separation capacity as the chokepoint.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Neodymium Is the Magnet Rare Earth at the Center of Motors, Drones, Wind Turbines, and Defense Manufacturing
Neodymium deep dive — the magnet rare earth in motors, drones, wind turbines, and defense systems; China at 69% of mine output and MP Materials under a $110/kg U.S. price floor.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Praseodymium Is Neodymium's Strategic Partner in Permanent Magnets — and a Critical Aerospace Alloying Element
Praseodymium deep dive — neodymium's partner in NdPr magnet alloys and an aerospace alloying element, with the same Chinese separation chokepoint.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Terbium Is the Ultra-Scarce Magnet Additive Whose Value Comes From Heat, Efficiency, and Supply Concentration
Terbium deep dive — the ultra-scarce magnet additive priced on heat performance and supply concentration, fed by Chinese and Myanmar heavy-REE feedstock.
Future Insight ·
The AI Factory Becomes an Industrial Commodity Complex — How Data Centers Reshape Cooling, Water, Power, Metals, and Global Trade Through 2050
Future Insights deep dive — how AI data centers reshape global demand for copper, transformers, cooling equipment, waste heat, and grid capacity through 2050, and what it means for global trade.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.