Before Malaysia's budget pays for a single service, RM210 billion of it is already spent
Two of the government's own documents give different totals for 2026. Both are right. Here is where the money goes, in order of size.
Budget
The federal budget as a document: what is allocated, what is actually spent, and what the Auditor-General later says about the difference.
The median Malaysian citizen's pay rose to RM2,793 in 2024. It buys what RM2,103 bought in 2010.
Malaysia's median citizen earned RM2,793 a month in 2024. Measured in 2010 ringgit it was RM2,103. Both figures are DOSM's own.