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Atlas Ekonomi Sabah

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Districts side by side

Choose up to four districts (3/4)

Interior

Sandakan

Tawau

West Coast

Kudat

Signatures

Jalur, side by side

worse ← percentile in Sabah → betterstructure: lower → higher (not good/bad) boundary change
PenampangIncome: 96th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 100th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 52th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 69th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 96th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 4th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 35th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 92th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 19th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 100th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 96th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 100th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 92th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 64th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 92th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 92th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 35th percentile in Sabah (2025)
PutatanIncome: 100th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 96th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 93th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 15th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 100th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 0th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 46th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 100th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 77th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 96th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 92th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 92th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 65th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 64th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 100th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 100th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 92th percentile in Sabah (2025)
TawauIncome: 70th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 74th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 26th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 77th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 62th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 31th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 81th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 85th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 15th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 50th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 88th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 85th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 96th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 64th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 88th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 81th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 8th percentile in Sabah (2025)

Line styles in charts below: Penampang = solid · Putatan = dashed · Tawau = dotted

Indicators

Latest values

IndicatorPenampangPutatanTawau
Median household incomeRM / monthRM 6,0902024 · #2RM 6,5632024 · #1RM 4,8522024 · #9
Absolute poverty rate% of households5.7%2024 · #16.9%2024 · #213.2%2024 · #8
Gini coefficient of household incomeindex (0–1)0.3482024 · #140.2892024 · #30.3892024 · #21
GDP per capitaRM / person / yearRM 11,8712020 · #9RM 7,5742020 · #23RM 17,5392020 · #7
Real GDP growth, 2015–2020 average% / year3.6%2020 · #13.6%2020 · #20.7%2020 · #14
Median income growth since 2019% / year2.1%2024 · #225.1%2024 · #71.9%2024 · #23 ⚑
Unemployment rate% of labour force5.8%2024 · #16.1%2024 · #37.1%2024 · #5
Labour force participation rate% of working-age74.4%2024 · #273.7%2024 · #373.3%2024 · #4
Households with piped water% of households98.0%2024 · #393.8%2024 · #1099.2%2024 · #2
Households with electricity% of households100.0%2024 · #1100.0%2024 · #1100.0%2024 · #1
Agriculture share of GDP% of GDP1.0%2020 · #260.0%2020 · #2722.3%2020 · #19
Manufacturing share of GDP% of GDP2.3%2020 · #183.9%2020 · #1511.4%2020 · #6
Services share of GDP% of GDP83.9%2020 · #291.6%2020 · #163.4%2020 · #11
Populationthousand persons166.82025 · #671.02025 · #18416.42025 · #3
Population densitypersons / km²3912025 · #32,0232025 · #12002025 · #5

Bold teal marks the best value among the selection where higher or lower is clearly better. # = rank in Sabah. ⚑ = boundary change.

Trajectories

How they moved

Median household income
RM 4,500RM 5,000RM 5,500RM 6,000RM 6,500201920222024
Absolute poverty rate
4.0%6.0%8.0%10.0%12.0%14.0%201920222024
Unemployment rate
6.0%6.5%7.0%7.5%8.0%2018202020222024
GDP at constant 2015 prices
0.02,000.04,000.06,000.08,000.0201520162017201820192020