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Trade between Japan and Malaysia

In 2024, Japan exported $14.8 billion to Malaysia and imported $19.6 billion. Japan ran a deficit of $4.8 billion with Malaysia, compared with a deficit of $2.9 billion in 2019. Malaysia was Japan’s 13th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Japan was Malaysia’s 4th (5%).

Summary

Japan → Malaysia
$14.8billion
Malaysia → Japan
$19.6billion
Japan’s balance
-$4.8billion

Balance

Japan’s trade balance with Malaysia

Trade between Japan and Malaysia grew 18% since 1995

USD billions (current). Japan’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 14.8
  • Imports 19.6
  • Balance -4.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$18.9 billion$10.2 billion$8.8 billion
1996$17.7 billion$11.6 billion$6.2 billion
1997$17.3 billion$11.1 billion$6.1 billion
1998$11.4 billion$8.7 billion$2.7 billion
1999$13.3 billion$11 billion$2.3 billion
2000$16.7 billion$13.1 billion$3.6 billion
2001$14.3 billion$12.3 billion$2.1 billion
2002$14.2 billion$11.4 billion$2.7 billion
2003$12.8 billion$12.4 billion$431 million
2004$16 billion$13.9 billion$2.1 billion
2005$16.2 billion$14.5 billion$1.7 billion
2006$16.3 billion$15.1 billion$1.2 billion
2007$17.7 billion$17.1 billion$614 million
2008$17.3 billion$21.7 billion-$4.4 billion
2009$15.4 billion$16.2 billion-$786 million
2010$19.9 billion$22.2 billion-$2.3 billion
2011$20.2 billion$29.5 billion-$9.3 billion
2012$19.7 billion$30.5 billion-$10.8 billion
2013$17.1 billion$29 billion-$11.9 billion
2014$15.8 billion$27.6 billion-$11.8 billion
2015$13.2 billion$20.9 billion-$7.7 billion
2016$13.3 billion$16.8 billion-$3.5 billion
2017$14.4 billion$18.8 billion-$4.4 billion
2018$15.4 billion$18.4 billion-$3.1 billion
2019$14.3 billion$17.2 billion-$2.9 billion
2020$14.2 billion$15.7 billion-$1.4 billion
2021$16.8 billion$19.1 billion-$2.3 billion
2022$17.3 billion$25.4 billion-$8.2 billion
2023$15 billion$19.3 billion-$4.3 billion
2024$14.8 billion$19.6 billion-$4.8 billion

What they sell each other

What Japan sells to Malaysia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Microchips$2.7 billion · 18%
    5 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Other industrial machines$1 billion · 6.9%
    15 thousand tonnes
  3. Auto parts$662 million · 4.5%
    80 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  4. Cars$638 million · 4.3%
    52 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  5. Refined petroleum$499 million · 3.4%
    524 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  6. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$440 million · 3%
    24 thousand tonnes
  7. Other precious metal articles$325 million · 2.2%
    36 tonnes
  8. Hot-rolled flat steel$237 million · 1.6%
    362 thousand tonnes
  9. Capacitors$207 million · 1.4%
    8 thousand tonnes
  10. Unwrought aluminum$203 million · 1.4%
    119 thousand tonnes · Malaysia’s sources

What Malaysia sells to Japan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Natural gas and LPG$6.2 billion · 31.5%
    10.3 million tonnes
  2. Microchips$1.2 billion · 6.3%
    524 tonnes · Malaysia’s destinations
  3. Crude petroleum$1 billion · 5.3%
    1.6 million tonnes · Malaysia’s destinations
  4. Palm oil$550 million · 2.8%
    559 thousand tonnes · Malaysia’s destinations
  5. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$406 million · 2.1%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. Monitors and projectors$384 million · 2%
    14 thousand tonnes · Japan’s sources
  7. Cameras and broadcast equipment$353 million · 1.8%
    1 thousand tonnes
  8. Unwrought aluminum$341 million · 1.7%
    152 thousand tonnes · Malaysia’s destinations
  9. Plywood$325 million · 1.7%
    199 thousand tonnes
  10. Computers$324 million · 1.7%
    1 thousand tonnes · Malaysia’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Yokohama to Port Klang.

The estimated sea route between Yokohama and Port Klang is 3,193 nautical miles (5,913 km) long: ≈ 7.5–9.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Malacca and Singapore.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$22.1 billion · 64.1%
  2. Air$12.4 billion · 35.9%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Malaysia was Japan’s 13th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Japan was Malaysia’s 4th (5%).

Malaysia in Japan’s trade
2.3%
Malaysia’s rank among Japan’s partners
13th
Japan in Malaysia’s trade
4.9%
Japan’s rank among Malaysia’s partners
4th

Compare with

Other partners of Japan

Other partners of Malaysia

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.