Prices

Special Release 2 (For Building and Structural Works) April 2022^*New

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• The Building Materials Cost Index (BCI) (without steel bars & with steel bars) increased for all building category between 0.1 and 3.6 per cent for Malaysia; Peninsular Malaysia between 0.6 and 3.4 per cent, Sabah between 0.1 and 2.4 per cent and Sarawak between 0.8 and 3.6 per cent.
• The unit price index for steel which consists of mild steel round bars and mycon 60 high tensile deformed bars increased 2.3 per cent as compared to 1.4 per cent in the previous month. The highest increase in steel was recorded in Sarawak (3.8%) and followed by Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang with 2.4 per cent.

Services Producer Price Index, First Quarter of 2022^*New

SPPI increased 0.6 per cent in the First Quarter of 2022 as compared to the same quarter of 2021

Producer Price Index Malaysia March 2022

Malaysia’s Producer Price Index recorded a two-digit increase with 11.6 per cent in March 2022 led by higher prices of primary commodity.

Consumer Price Index Malaysia March 2022

Analysis of Annual Consumer Price Index 2020

Household consumption purchasing power declined 16.7 per cent in one decade