Malaysia's labour market looked relatively steady—until 2020 broke the pattern.
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JOBS · MALAYSIA
Malaysia's unemployment shock and recovery
Follow the average monthly unemployment rate by year from 2010 through the latest available DOSM data.
20103unemployment rate · %
Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)unemployment rate · %
STORY NOTES
What makes this worth sharing?
The annualised view makes the COVID-era labour shock and subsequent normalisation immediately visible.
SOCIAL HEADLINE
What happened to Malaysia's unemployment rate after 2020?
CAPTION
From a relatively stable 2010s labour market to the 2020 shock and recovery: Malaysia's monthly unemployment data, averaged by year.
Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).#PulseKita#Malaysia#Jobs#Unemployment
METHODOLOGY
Monthly labour data, summarised as annual averages.
PulseKita averages the monthly unemployment-rate observations published by DOSM within each calendar year. The latest year is therefore year-to-date when all twelve months are not yet available.
This is an annual average derived from a monthly source, not DOSM's separate annual labour-force series.
The latest year can be partial.
SOURCEDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)