How manufacturing-heavy are Malaysia's merchandise exports?

World Bank/UN Comtrade manufactures exports as a share of merchandise exports, restricted to ASEAN members with a verified 2024 observation.

UN Comtrade / WITS via World Bank2024 same-year request · checked 3 Oct 2026

SHOW ME THE DATA2024 · manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

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2024

1Cambodia78.1manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

2Philippines77.2manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

3Singapore74.5manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

4Thailand72.1manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

5Malaysia69.8manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

6Indonesia44.9manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

7Myanmar35.7manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

8Brunei Darussalam24.2manufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

UC/UN Comtrade / WITS via World Bankmanufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

SourceUN Comtrade / WITS via World Bank ↗2024 same-year request · checked 3 Oct 2026HIGH CONFIDENCE

Method & notes

IN BRIEF

Malaysia is #5/8 in the verified 2024 ASEAN subset on the World Bank/UN Comtrade manufactures-export share.

METHOD & LIMITATIONS

How the numbers were calculated

PulseKita requests World Bank indicator TX.VAL.MANF.ZS.UN for all ASEAN members and fixes the comparison to 2024. The World Bank definition covers SITC Rev. 3 sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, excluding non-ferrous metals in division 68. Older observations are not carried forward. If the official API cannot return a usable same-year set, PulseKita shows the story as unavailable instead of seeding a mixed-year race.

Malaysia's 2024 World Bank/UN Comtrade manufactures share is 69.8%, ranking #5/8 among ASEAN members with a verified 2024 observation.
Not shown for 2024: Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Timor-Leste.
This is a merchandise-export composition measure. It does not measure manufacturing value added, domestic ownership, productivity or technological sophistication.
MATRADE reports manufactured goods as 85.5% of Malaysia's 2024 national exports under its own national trade classification. That figure is useful Malaysia context but is not substituted into this World Bank/UN Comtrade cross-country indicator.

Evidence trail

EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology

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Declared sourceManufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)
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TransformationPulseKita requests World Bank indicator TX.VAL.MANF.ZS.UN for all ASEAN members and fixes the comparison to 2024. The World Bank definition covers SITC Rev. 3 sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, excluding non-ferrous metals in division 68. Older observations are not carried forward. If the official API cannot return a usable same-year set, PulseKita shows the story as unavailable instead of seeding a mixed-year race.
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Published visualRanked snapshot

Source

HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary

COVERAGE2024

UNITmanufactures exports · % of merchandise exports

SOURCEofficial publication

UPDATED2024 same-year request · checked 3 Oct 2026

How the numbers were calculated

Evidence trail

Source

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