Malaysia Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 34.959 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 150.062 billion kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 669 million kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 19 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 12.124 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 87.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 10.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 2.977 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 35.268 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 17,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 37.295 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 226 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 593,800 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 718,600 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 303,600 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 182,300 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 3.6 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

528,300 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

208,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

304,600 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 74,985,350,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 39,586,915,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 34,197,548,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 4,008,073,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 1,189,306,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

254.764 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 81.726 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 94.934 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 78.104 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

123.755 million Btu/person (2019 est.)