Malaysia Pulses, Other and products Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr)

Malaysia Pulses, Other and products Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr): Key Points

• Two numbers frame this chart: 0.8200 kg/cap for Malaysia's pulses, Other and products Food supply quantity in 2014, 1.95 kg/cap in 2023. That gap works out to a 138% rise.
• 2015-2017: keeps falling, down to 0.6100 kg/cap (-26%).
• 2018: up to 0.6600 kg/cap (+8%).
• 2019-2020: drifts lower, 0.5400 kg/cap (-18%).
• 2021: spikes to 1.92 kg/cap (+256%).
• 2023: Closes higher than it opened — 1.95 kg/cap, a 137.8% gain over the period.

What The Volatility Really Means

This is a series to read year by year, not to summarize with a single trend line. Doing the latter would flatten out real, meaningful movement.

Worth noting this move happens in 2020, the year lockdowns disrupted ordinary activity broadly across the world. It may or may not be the direct explanation here, but it's the most common one for a dip landing in exactly this year.

This chart answers 'what happened' for Malaysia, not 'is that good or bad' — that second question needs a comparison point, either other countries or a longer run of history than what's shown here.

Worth remembering this isn't a live feed — it's Malaysia's periodically-updated official statistics, with the usual lag and modeling that comes with any indicator series like this.

This is a small production volume in absolute terms — at this scale, a single farm, processing plant, or even one bad harvest can move the national total by a large percentage. Don't read year-to-year swings here as an economy-wide signal.