KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's labour market continues to perform well with an unemployment rate of 2.9% in November 2025, the lowest level in 11 years, says Datuk Seri Ramanan Ramakrishnan. The Human Resources Minister said the country's labour market remained resilient despite facing economic transitions, rapid technological advancements and changing global work practices. Ramanan said according to the Statistics Department of Malaysia (DOSM), total employment increased to 17.09 million people while the employment-to-population ratio rose to 68.8%$, indicating that more Malaysians have successfully entered the labour market. "This shows that the economy was not only providing more jobs but, more importantly, improving the quality of those jobs," he said. He said these efforts were strengthened through MYFutureJobs developed by PERKESO and powered by real-time labour market data.

Source: The Star January 13, 2026 16:24 UTC