There are a lot of conversations about income these days. In Malaysia, the conversations also get a bit racial sometimes. But how did it look like over the past years? The following describes the average Malaysian household monthly income (pre-tax) according to ethnicity: This is in nominal ringgit, i.e. it does not account for inflation. [...]

The following describes expenditure pattern of average Malaysian household of different (monthly) income class in 1999. This is based on the Department of Statistics’ Household Expenditure Survey published in 2000.