How much have Malaysian ministries spent since 2017?
Explore 2017–2026 from four official MOF expenditure books. Distinguish estimates from actual accounts and see warnings where ministries changed responsibilities.
22Matched ministry codes in 2017
23Matched ministry codes in 2018
2017–2024Actual-account years
2025–2026Estimate years
Compare ministries
All amounts are nominal RM; separate 2019–2024 CPI comparison is available. 2025–2026 estimates are not actual expenditure.
2017–2026 history
■ Actual 2017–2024■ Estimates 2025–2026
Kementerian Kesihatan
2017
Actual
RM25.24 bilion
2018
Actual
RM27.01 bilion
2019
Actual
RM29.43 bilion
2020
Actual
RM30.84 bilion
2021
Actual
RM33.25 bilion
2022
Actual
RM33.04 bilion
2023
Actual
RM36.85 bilion
2024
Actual
RM39.75 bilion
2025
Original estimate
RM45.27 bilion
2026
Estimate
RM46.52 bilion
Kementerian Pendidikan
2017
Actual
RM44.88 bilion
2018
Actual
RM46.52 bilion
2019
Actual
RM60.43 bilion
2020
Actual
RM53.61 bilion
2021
Actual
RM47.96 bilion
2022
Actual
RM51.95 bilion
2023
Actual
RM56.31 bilion
2024
Actual
RM59.87 bilion
2025
Original estimate
RM64.19 bilion
2026
Estimate
RM66.20 bilion
Education and Higher Education were merged and re-separated around 2019–2020. Budget codes do not measure an unchanged educational function.
Compare changes in actual expenditure
Kementerian Kesihatan+RM14.51 bilion (+57.5%)2017–2024 · Nominal RM; not inflation-adjusted
Kementerian Pendidikan: Scope not comparable / missing data. No growth percentage calculated.
Ministry ranking
A dash means no separately matched code, not RM0. Ranking does not cover all federal expenditure.
Historical ministries not automatically merged
Kementerian Hal Ehwal EkonomiB.15 · MOF 2020 · 2017–2018
Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan AirB.29 · MOF 2020 · 2017–2018
Kementerian Wilayah PersekutuanB.32 · MOF 2020 · 2017–2018
Kementerian Hal Ehwal EkonomiB.15 · MOF 2022 · 2019–2020
Kementerian Wilayah PersekutuanB.32 · MOF 2022 · 2019–2020
Kementerian Alam Sekitar dan AirB.33 · MOF 2022 · 2019–2020
This is not an exhaustive historical ministry list. Functional mapping needs evidence of duties and transferred allocations, not matching names or codes alone.
Sources, limitations and how to read
Values are operating and development totals matched to the ministry codes in MOF's 2026 expenditure book, not total federal government expenditure. Charged expenditure, pensions and debt service are not classified as ministries.
2017–2018 data come from MOF's 2020 book, 2019–2020 from the 2022 book, 2021–2022 from the 2024 book and 2023–2026 from the 2026 book. Ministry responsibilities and names changed. These totals do not establish administration-level causality.
These values are nominal ringgit. Use the separate CPI page for 2019–2024 approximate real-term comparisons. The 2025–2026 estimates are not realized spending.
Example restructuring: MESTECC was created after Malaysia's 2018 general election by combining science, energy and environment responsibilities from several ministries. We suppress automatic growth calculations crossing this change. MOSTI official history ↗
