KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 29): Malaysia’s e-commerce income grew by 5.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in the third quarter of 2023 (3Q2023) to RM289.5 billion from RM274.6 million in the same quarter last year, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
This growth was primarily driven by the manufacturing and services sectors, said the department in its Malaysia Digital Economy 2023 report released on Wednesday.
Chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said for a quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) comparison, the 3Q e-commerce income saw a positive trend with a 3.2% increase, versus RM280.5 million recorded in 2Q2023.
Based on the earlier Information and Communication Technology Satellite Account 2022 publication compiled into the current report, he said information and communication technology (ICT) and e-commerce generated a value-added of RM412.3 billion in 2022, against RM359.3 billion in 2021, up 14.8%.
It said that the contribution of ICT and e-commerce to the national economy in 2022 reached 23%, versus 23.2% in 2021, mainly due to the gross value-added of the information and communication technology industry (GVAICT) at 13.6% and the e-commerce of other industries at 9.4%.
In the breakdown of e-commerce income by market segment for 2021, Mohd Uzir said revenue generated from the domestic market significantly surpassed the international market, at RM932.7 billion, or an 89.9% share.
In contrast, revenue generated from the international market for the year amounted to RM104.5 billion, or a 10.1% share, he said.
Meanwhile, he said e-commerce income by customer type via business-to-business registered the highest income of RM713.1 billion, with a 68.8% contribution, followed by business-to-consumer at RM308.9 billion (29.8%) and business-to-government at RM15.2 billion (1.5%).
“ICT services — which comprise the activities of publishing, motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing, programming and broadcasting, telecommunications services, computer programming, consultancy and related activities, and information services — recorded a gross output of RM182.2 billion in 2021, up 5.4% as compared to 2020.
“In line with the increase in gross output, the value of intermediate input rose RM4.6 billion (from RM82.9 billion in 2020) to record RM87.4 billion.
“This subsequently contributed to a value-added of RM94.8 billion for the year 2021,” Mohd Uzir said in a separate statement.
Furthermore, he pointed out that 93.8% of establishments used computers, while 90.6% accessed the internet in 2021.
“Putrajaya maintained the highest rates of computer and internet usage in establishments, both consistently at 100%.
“In 2022, the percentage of individuals using computers was 80.2%, and internet access was recorded at 97.4%.
“Putrajaya also displayed the highest individual computer usage and internet access, both registering at 97.0% and 99.9%,” he added.
DOSM’s Malaysia Digital Economy 2023 publication, released on Wednesday, provides a compilation of statistics from several earlier reports, namely the Usage of ICT and E-Commerce by Establishment 2022, Annual Economic Statistics 2022 — Information and Communication Services, and ICT Use and Access by Individuals and Households Survey Report 2022, among others.
Source: theedgemalaysia.com
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