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Income inequality in Malaysia

income inequality in Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ17051444 ↗
Source-derived summary

According to the UNDP 1997 Human Development Report, and the 2004 United Nations Human Development (UNHDP) report, Malaysia has the highest income disparity between the rich and poor in Southeast Asia, greater than that of Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia.

The UNHDP Report shows that the richest 10% in Malaysia control 38.4% of the economic income as compared to the poorest 10% who control only 1.7%. However, according to official statistics from the Prime Minister's Department, inequality has been decreasing steadily since 1970, with the Gini coefficient dropping to an all-time low of 0.40 in 2014.

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“Income inequality in Malaysia” enters the record as income inequality in Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Income, inequality and Malaysia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2004, 1970, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Income, inequality and Malaysia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17051444. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2004, 1970 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Income inequality in Malaysia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.