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Malaysia natural rubber production decreased by 20.8 per cent in January 2025

PUTRAJAYA, MARCH 13, 2025 – The Department of Statistics, Malaysia (DOSM) released the Monthly Rubber Statistics, Malaysia, January 2025. This publication consists of statistics on production, imports, exports, domestic consumption, stocks, prices, number of employees, salaries & wages and productivity of rubber estates.

Chief Statistician Malaysia, Dato’ Sri Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin said, Natural Rubber (NR) production decreased by 20.8 per cent in January 2025 (30,342 tonnes) as compared to December 2024 (38,299 tonnes). Year-on-year comparison showed that the production of NR increased by 0.2 per cent (January 2024: 30,287 tonnes). Production of NR in January 2025 for Malaysia was mainly contributed by smallholders sector (87.0%) as compared to estates sector (13.0%).

Total stocks of NR in January 2025 increased by 6.0 per cent to 177,936 tonnes as compared to 167,801 tonnes in December 2024. Rubber processors factory contributed 87.5 per cent of the stocks followed by rubber consumers factory (12.4%) and rubber estates (0.1%).

Exports of Malaysia's NR amounted to 44,337.6 tonnes in January 2025, decreased 0.001 per cent as against December 2024 (44,337.8 tonnes). P.R. China remained as the main destination for NR exports which accounted 43.6 per cent of total exports in January 2025 followed by Germany (11.1%), the United Arab Emirates (9.3%), the United States of America (7.6%) and Portugal (3.0%). The exports performance was contributed by NR-based product such as gloves, tyre, tube and rubber thread. Gloves were the main exports of rubber-based products with a value of RM1.4 billion in January 2025, a decrease of 8.1 per cent as compared to December 2024 (RM1.5 billion).

Analysis of the average monthly price showed that Concentrated Latex recorded a decrease of 3.0 per cent (January 2025: 678.42 sen per kg; December 2024: 699.35 sen per kg) while Scrap decreased by 1.9 per cent (January 2025: 743.27 sen per kg; December 2024: 757.28 sen per kg). Trend of prices for all Standard Malaysian Rubber (S.M.R) decreased between 1.6 per cent and 3.0 per cent.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA
13 March 2025

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