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1. How big is Malaysia ?

Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Thailand Cambodia Myanma

176,520 sq 657,740
682.7 sq km 511,770 sq
1.83 million km sq km
Ranked km
328550 sq km Ranked Ranked
182nd Ranked
sq km 6 times 88th 40th.
land 481 times 49th.
Ranked more 86% Twice as
smaller 56% more
63th. than smaller much
than than
Malaysia than as
Malaysia Malaysia
Malaysia Malaysia

251.16 55.17
5.46 million million 67.45 million million
Ranked Ranked Ranked Ranked
29.63 115th 4th. 20th. 15.21 24th.
million 5 times less 8 times 2 times million 86% more
populatio Ranked than more than more than Ranked than
n 43th. Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia 68th. Malaysia

Myanmar/ASE
population Malaysia ASEAN AN
2015 30723155 634609846 4.84%
2016 31187265 641775797 4.86%
2017 31624264 648780040 4.87%
2018 32042458 655636576 4.89%

Land area
(km2) 328,550 4490212 7.32%
After comparing Malaysia to several other countries within the region, we can
conclude that Malaysia have an average size, in both population and land area
categories. Beside Singapore, Malaysia still behind other countries in population size
and land area.

2. How big is Malaysia economy ?

In a year when Asia was home to the fastest-growing economies in the world,
Malaysia made financial sector watchers stand up and take notice on several
occasions.

For starters, it was the only emerging market to make it into the top 20 countries in
the World Economic Forum's Financial Development Index 2010, moving up five
notches from 22nd to 17th place. Malaysia also ranked number 21 in the World
Bank’s Doing Business Index for 2010, ahead of Germany (at 22).

Malaysia adopts Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), an ambitious 10-year

plan to restructure the economy and raise the country to developed-nation status
through investments in selected sectors. ETP leans heavily on the private sector for
its success,
Foreign direct investment (FDI) astonishingly increase 141% from RM7.1bn in the
period January-September 2009 to RM17.1bn for the same period this year. FDI
inflows are expected to surge to more than RM20bn in 2010, reflecting increased
confidence in the economy and early success of the government’s economic
initiatives. Even though comparing to Singapore, Malaysia is the underdog but the
point steadily increase throughout many years.
Malaysia is a developing economy in Asia which, in recent years, has successfully
transformed from an exporter of raw materials into a diversified economy. The
largest sector of the economy is services, accounting for around 54 percent of GDP.

Based on the result from FDI (inflow), Gross fixed capital, and GDP, we can see that
the economy from both countries are the same. But if we combine with the result
from country size, we may see that Malaysia still behind Singapore since they have a
lot more potential to develop.
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EXPORT AND IMPORT OF GOODS AND SERVICES (%GDP)

Table 1 : Export of goods and services

As it can be seen from the chart, Malaysia’s export rate increases rapidly from 1986-
1996. According to the Implication of financial crisis for asian countries, the export
structure in Asia changed dramatically from 1990 to 1996. Malaysia and Singapore
doubled their share in exporting high technology products during this period. From
the period of 1996 to 1998 , East Asia encountered the financial crisis which
impacted on the export rate of all Asian countries. Export from Malaysia dropped
dramatically because the East Asian economies collapsed (50% of the Malaysia
market) had cut their demand. The Malaysian export began to grow strongly from
1999 to 2000 ,the highest export rate was 176.8896 million in 1999. Malaysia and
Philippines are two countries that have nearly the same size and but Malaysia export
accounted twice as much as the Philipines. After 2000 , Thailand export increased
while Malaysia, Singapore and Philipines slowed down on export. The 2001 global
slowdown on economies also damaged Malaysia as the export fell by a massive
14% and continued to decline more afterwards.
Table 2: Import of goods and services

Malaysia import fluctuated over the period from 1990-2017. The import reached the
highest peak in 1995 and 2000. During the financial crisis, it is surprising that import
from Malaysia increased 10% while export rate declined dramatically. However, after
the crisis, the import slowed down and began to decline .

5. The amount of investment/capital that country received.

Foreign Direct Investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

BLUE: Malaysia
RED: Singapore
The FDI/GDP of Malaysia fluctuates through few years from 2012 to 2017 and
reaches the peak point in 2016. The Malaysia FDI flows by some main sectors:
services, manufacturing, construction and agriculture. The components of FDI flows
including equity & investment fund shares and debt instrument. The top contributors
for FDI are: USA, Hongkong and Japan. Compared to Singapore, Malaysia has a 5
times larger in population in 2017. The GDP of the two countries is quite similar but
FDI in Malaysia is less than in Singapore. We can conclude that Singapore is a
larger economy compared to Malaysia. Singapore always focuses on attracting FDI
by boosting education, training and job creation and developing new technology.
Malaysia is also a potential market to invest because of its young and energetic
labour. Government can make some policies to attract more foreign investors like
what Singapore does.

HOW BIG IS MALAYSIA AND ITS ECONOMY COMPARED TO SINGAPORE?

TAX SINGAPORE MALAYSIA

Corporate Tax 17% 24%

(Eligible new start-ups are
given full exemption on their
first $100,000 for the first 3
years)

Branch Tax 17% 24%

(Partial exemption
on first $300,000)

Capital Gains Tax - 0-30%

Income Tax 0% - 22% 0% - 28%

Withholding Tax
- Dividends 0% 0%
- Interests 15% 15%
- Royalties 10% 10%

Double Taxation Yes Yes

Relief
 Foreign-Sourced May be taxable if received or No
Income Tax deemed received in (Except for income from
Singapore banking, insurance
or air/sea transport)

GST 7% 6%

Country Rankings at a Glance

YEAR CATEGORY SINGA MALAYSIA’S SOURCE

PORE’ RANK
S
RANK

World Bank, Ease

Ease of Doing of Doing Business
2017 Business 2 24 Report

Heritage
Foundation’s Index
World’s Freest of Economic
2018 Economy 2 22 Freedom

World Economic
World’s Most Forum, Global
Competitive Competitiveness
2017-2018 Economy 3 23 Report

Transparency
Country with International’s
Least Corruption Corruption
2017 Perception 6 62 Perceptions Index

World’s Best Forbes’ Best

Country for Countries for
2017 Business 9 35 Business Index

World’s Most IMD, World

Competitive Competitiveness
2018 Economy 3 22 Yearbook
 World’s Most
Innovative INSEAD Global
2018 Economy 5 35 Innovation Index

World Economic
Forum, Global
Country Most Enabling Trade
2016 Open to Trade 1 37 Report

INSEAD, Global
Talent
Global Talent Competitiveness
2017 Competitiveness 1 28 Index

PWC, IFC, World

Ease of Paying Bank's Paying
2018 Taxes 7 73 Taxes Survey

World’s Lowest
Risk City for
Employing and 51
Relocating (Kuala Aon Consulting’s
2013 Employees 2 Lumpur) People Risk Index

Quality of Life for Forbes Tax Misery

2017 Expats 4 22 and Reform Index

The above table shows that Singapore has a dominance position over Malaysia as a
business jurisdiction.
7. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MALAYSIA’S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (Huy)
Manufacturing sector in Malaysia started to develop since the early 1980s when the
country experienced the transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial one.
Moving to the next decades, a crucial element to Malaysia’s economic development
is the transformation of its industrial base into one predicated on high value-added
products and driven by innovation, automation and increased productivity.This major
shift happen as the country realize that they need to avoid being too dependent on
imports as well as to substantially build a technology-based sectors served as the
core of the whole economy. Manufacturing goods accounted for 83.7% of Malaysia’s
total exports in 2018, according to the Malaysian External Trade Development
Corporation (MATRADE)

Until now, the manufacturing industry is the fastest growing industry of Malaysia and
become one of the country’s economic development factors.