Balance of Key BOP Components

Data as of 1Q 2025

Overall balance of the 4 main components of Malaysia's balance of payments (BOP).

Date

Account Type

Balance (RM mil)

2010-01-01reserves-702.811
2010-04-01reserves-6,224.706
2010-07-01reserves-5,925.734
2010-10-01reserves-17,160.594
2011-01-01reserves-15,806.988
2011-04-01reserves-58,050.367
2011-07-01reserves-2,215.712
2011-10-01reserves-11,043.098
2012-01-01reserves-173.859
2012-04-01reserves-4,958.991
2012-07-01reserves-522.902
2012-10-01reserves-5,903.392
2013-01-01reserves-6,176.687
2013-04-01reserves1,900.052
2013-07-01reserves4,293.090
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Balance of Main Components

How is this data produced?

In general, Malaysia's balance of payments (BOP) record all international economic transactions between Malaysia and other nations. This dataset presents the overall balance of the main components of Malaysia's BOP, that is the current account, capital account, financial account, and official reserve account. It is compiled based on the IMF's BPM6 guidelines. For a full description of the methodology, please refer to the Technical Notes.

What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?

Values for the most recent 8 quarters may be revised in future releases.

Publication(s) using this data

Balance of Payments, 3Q 2024, the latest edition of the quarterly BOP statistics published by DOSM. OpenDOSM also features a dashboard on BOP which enables you to explore Malaysia's BOP data interactively.

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Dataset description

Overall balance of the 4 main components of Malaysia's balance of payments (BOP).

Variable definitions
  • Date
  • Component
  • Balance (RM mil)
Last updated:

16 May 2025, 12:00

Next update:

15 Aug 2025, 12:00

Data source(s)
  • Department of Statistics Malaysia
License

This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.

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Connect directly to the data with Python.

# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet import pandas as pd URL_DATA = 'https://storage.dosm.gov.my/bop/bop_balance.parquet' df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA) if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']) print(df)

Sample OpenAPI query

The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.

import requests import pprint url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=bop_balance&limit=3" response_json = requests.get(url=url).json() pprint.pprint(response_json)
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