Unemployment rate in Malaysia

Unemployment rate in Malaysia - From our latest research and study in April 2013, the Malaysia Unemployment Rate was decreased from 3.3% in March of 2013 to 3% in April of 2013. Our research data came from the Department of Statistics Malaysia themselves.

If we go back to the past time, the averaged 3.33% from 1998 until this year of 2013, we got that the rate record reaching an all time high of 4.50% in March of 1999 and a record low of 2.70% in August of 2012.

Indeed the unemployment rate in Malaysia dealings the number of people passively searching for a career as a percentage of the labour force. Through this article we includes a diagram with historical data of Malaysia unemployment rate in a picture below:



Below we provide the table of forecast probability for the next month of June until September 2013:

CALENDAR	GMT	Country	Event	Reference	Actual	Previous	Consensus	Forecast
2013-03-21	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-01-31	3.3%	3.3%
2013-04-22	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-02-28	3.0%	3.3%
2013-05-21	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-03-31	3.3%	3.0%
2013-06-21	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-04-30	3.0%	3.3%		3.29%
2013-07-22	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-05-31		3.0%		3.1%
2013-08-21	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-06-30				3%
2013-09-23	05:00 AM	Malaysia	Unemployment Rate	2013-07-31				3%

Another additional information that relate to our research collected in the table below:

Labour	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest	Forecast		Unit	Trend
Unemployment Rate	3.00	2013-04-30	3.30	4.50	2.70	3.10	2013-05-31	Percent
Employed Persons	12123.00	2011-12-31	11776.80	12123.00	5624.60	12154.10	2012-12-31	Thousand Persons
Job Vacancies	322146.00	2013-02-15	429928.00	745205.00	7850.00	439630.42	2013-06-30	Jobs
Unemployed Persons	382.90	2011-12-31	395.80	534.70	210.50	381.84	2012-12-31	Thousand Persons
Wages in Manufacturing	2742543.00	2013-04-15	2834357.00	2834357.00	83781.00	2699921.83	2013-05-31	MYR THO
Population	28.86	2011-12-31	28.50	28.86	8.14	28.90	2012-12-31	Million

Notes: The unemployment rate in Malaysia described as the number of people passively searching for a career divided by the work force. Changes in unemployment count frequently on inflows made up of non-employed people starting to look for careers, of employed people who already lose their occupations and try to find a new ones and of people who stop searching for employment.