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Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)Values: households in absolute poverty · %IN BRIEF
HOUSEHOLDS · POVERTY · STATES
How has absolute poverty changed across Malaysian states?
Track the share of households below the Poverty Line Income across Malaysian states from 1970 through the latest 2024 HIES estimates.
SHOW ME THE DATA1970 → 2024 · households in absolute poverty · %
VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens
PULSEKITA RACE1970 — 2024
SourceDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)
1970
1Kelantan76
2Perlis74
3Terengganu69
4Kedah63
5Perak49
6Johor46
7Melaka45
8Negeri Sembilan45
9Pulau Pinang44
10Pahang43
11Selangor29
12Sabah0
13Sarawak0
14W.P. Kuala Lumpur0
15W.P. Labuan0
16W.P. Putrajaya0
197019702024
Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)Values: households in absolute poverty · %SourceDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) ↗31 Dec 2025 · data through 2024HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
State poverty rates provide a household-vulnerability view that complements income and wage statistics.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita uses DOSM's published absolute-poverty rate by state for each available household-income survey year.
- Absolute poverty means household income is below the applicable Poverty Line Income (PLI).
- The poverty line and survey methodology have evolved over the long historical series, so distant years should be interpreted in their published context.
- HIES is not conducted every year; frames represent published survey years.
- W.P. Putrajaya is only available separately from 2007; earlier residents were included under Selangor.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Primary evidencePoverty by State
- 2TransformationPulseKita uses DOSM's published absolute-poverty rate by state for each available household-income survey year.
- 3Published visualAnimated race
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE1970 → 2024
UNIThouseholds in absolute poverty · %
SOURCEmachine readable
UPDATED31 Dec 2025 · data through 2024