Malaysia’s Creative Industry in Numbers
By Ng Kar Yong, Yap Jo-Yee
May 2021 STATISTICS
AS DEFINED IN the National Creative Industry Policy (DIKN) 2009, the creative industry in Malaysia consists of three main categories which cover a total of 45 sub-industries. The three categories are Multimedia Creative, Culture Art Creative and Culture Heritage Creative (See Table 1 for a non-exhaustive list of sub-industries within the categories). In 2019 the creative industry in Malaysia contributed RM29.4mil in gross domestic product (GDP) (Figure 1). Between 2015 and 2018, it suffered steep declines in its growth rate,...
Ng Kar Yong
is a statistician at Penang Institute who loves art and nature.
Yap Jo-Yee
is a research analyst at Penang Institute whose interests range from development issues to behavioural economics. Her latest goal is to use ggplot2 without Google’s help.
