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International Reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia as at 15 May 2024
Embargo : Not for publication or broadcast before 1500 on Thursday, 23 May 2024
23 May 2024
The international reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia amounted to USD113.3 billion as at 15 May 2024. The reserves position is sufficient to finance 5.4 months of imports of goods and services[1], and is 1.0 times of the total short-term external debt.
[1] Under the previous import coverage measure, reserves is sufficient to finance 6.7 months of retained imports of goods. For more information on the new indicator, please refer to the article on “Expansion of the Measure on Reserve Coverage of Imports – from Retained Imports to Imports of Goods and Services” in BNM’s Quarterly Bulletin for the Fourth Quarter of 2021 publication, page 27, which can be accessed at bnm.gov.my/-/quarterly-bulletin-4q-2021