International Reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia as at 31 January 2025
7 February 2025
[1] Under the previous import coverage measure, the reserves are sufficient to finance 5.7 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.
[2] The ratio comprises the latest available data on reserves (as at 31 January 2025) and short-term external debt (available as at 3Q 2024). As per normal practice, the short-term external debt is valued using the exchange rate as at 3Q 2024.
[3] The short-term external debt comprised of borrowing from non-residents with maturity of one year or less. It is accounted mostly by resident banks in connection with their foreign currency liquidity operations and multinational companies (MNCs) (including foreign banks) borrowing from their overseas parent/headquarters. These obligations can be met in the normal course of operations from their external asset holdings and do not pose any claims on BNM international reserves.