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As an open economy, Malaysia takes her national competitiveness seriously in her efforts to continue to attract foreign direct investments, sustain her domestic investments, and maintain her position in the global trading environment.
The Malaysian Government sees the private sector as the main driving force of economic growth and development in the country, while the Government itself takes on the role of facilitating business.
Among the Government’s efforts to facilitate doing business in Malaysia is the employment of expatriate.
The work permit required for the employment of expatriate is an Employment Pass that enables an expatriate to take up employment with an organisation in Malaysia. There are two stages in the employment of expatriates:
Application for an expatriate post and an endorsement of employment pass.
There are a few categories of Employment visa for companies to select and plan, and there are the;
Employment Pass (EP) for Expatriate,
Dependant Pass for legal spouse and children of EP holder,
Social Visit Pass (Long Term) for EP holder Parents & Parents-in-law,
Professional Visit Pass for expatriate that are here to provide services or training and
Resident Pass - Talent.
For details please click here.
The intricacy of processing the work visa with relevant authorities for companies that are already swarmed with the day to day activities of running the business can be time consuming and distracting to your business.
Let us help you and work with you to ease the complication in regards to Immigration to companies and expatriate who require advisory on compliance issues, liaison, applications and approvals.
We help companies to coordinate, liaise and work with relevant local authorities on the applications and approvals. For foreign company who have intention to start a company in Malaysia, we can be your service provider for all matters concerning licences, permits, immigration, regarding relocation, sourcing for a place to setup a company or factory and other related business services.
We assist companies in securing appropriate business licences so that companies would not be overburdened by the processes.
We provide advisory and application service to manufacturers who intend to offshore their operations here in Malaysia and to take advantage of the benefits offered in Malaysia
Capital: Kuala Lumpur
Time difference: UTC+8
Currency: Malaysia Ringgit (RM) (MYR)
International country code (phone): +60
Driving side: Left
Code for name of Country ISO 3166: MY
Internet country code: my
Language Spoken:
Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Iban and Kadazan
Malaysia has 134 living languages - 112 indigenous languages and 22 non-indigenous languages
Electricity Supply Voltage: 240V and 50Hz
Electrical Plug type: G plug that has three rectangular pins in a triangular pattern (UK type)
(we recommend you check your appliances before embarking on your journey, to understand the requirements in Malaysia)
Population: 32,600,000 (2020 est.)
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 26.8% (male 4,504,562/female 4,246,681)
15-24 years: 16.63% (male 2,760,244/female 2,670,186)
25-54 years: 40.86% (male 6,737,826/female 6,604,776)
55-64 years: 8.81% (male 1,458,038/female 1,418,280)
65 years and over: 6.9% (male 1,066,627/female 1,184,863) (2020 est.)
Median Age:
total: 29.2 years
male: 28.9 years
female: 29.6 years (2020 est.)
Dependency ratio:
total dependency ratio: 44.2
youth dependency ratio: 33.8
elderly dependency ratio: 10.4
potential support ratio: 9.7 (2020 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.29% (2020 est.)
Population distribution:
distribution with over 80% of the population residing on the Malay Peninsula
Life Expectancy:
total population: 75.9 years
male: 73 years
female: 78.9 years (2020 est.)
Drinking water source:
improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 93% of population
total: 98.2% of population
unimproved:
urban: 0% of population
rural: 7% of population
total: 1.8% of population (2015 est.)
Current health Expenditure: 3.9% (2017)
Physician density: 1.51 physicians/1,000 population (2015)
Hospital bed density: 1.9 beds/1,000 population (2015)
Sanitation facility access:
improved:
urban: 96.1% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 95.9% of population (2015 est.)
total: 96% of population (2015 est.)
unimproved:
urban: 3.9% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 4.1% of population (2015 est.)
total: 4% of population (2015 est.)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 93.7%
male: 96.3%
female: 91.1% (2016)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 13 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2017)
Natural Resources:
tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite
Agriculture Products:
Peninsular Malaysia - palm oil, rubber, cocoa, rice;
Sabah - palm oil, subsistence crops; rubber, timber;
Sarawak - palm oil, rubber, timber; pepper
Industries:
Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and manufacturing, petroleum and natural gas, light manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, electronics and semiconductors, timber processing
Sabah - logging, petroleum and natural gas production
Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum and natural gas production, logging
Electricity Access: electrification - total population: 100% (2016)
Electricity from fossil fuels: 78% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Electricity from nuclear fuels: 0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Electricity from Hydroelectric plants: 18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Electricity from Renewable sources: 4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Internet users:
percent of population: 87.4% (2018 est.)
Nine out of ten Internet users used smartphone (93.1%) to go online
More than half of Internet users used online banking (54.2%) in 2018
Majority of Internet users had shared content online, particularly among younger users – 61.8% shared content online, with educational content and entertainment/humorous content being the most usually shared content. Most of the content were shared online via social media (73.8%) and group messaging (70.6%).
gender distribution: 59% Male : 49% Female
mean age: were mainly comprised of adults in their 20’s and 30’s, where they accounted for 30.0% and 25.9% respectively
urban rural distribution: Urban users made up for 70.0% of Internet users, while rural users only accounted for 30.0%.