When people picture Malaysian halal exports they picture packaged food. They are half right: food and beverage holds RM36.86 billion, or 53.8%.
The second category is halal ingredients — RM21.39 billion, 31.2%. Not finished products, but material sold to other manufacturers.
The numbers
| Category | 2025 value (RM) | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Food & beverage | 36.86 billion | 53.8% |
| Halal ingredients | 21.39 billion | 31.2% |
| Palm oil & derivatives | 4.57 billion | 6.7% |
| Other categories (not broken out) | ≈5.70 billion | ≈8.3% |
The invisible B2B business
Almost a third of Malaysia's halal exports are raw materials and ingredients that end up inside someone else's product, under someone else's brand. It is a business no consumer ever sees.
For a Malaysian plant that is a strategic signal: supplying halal-certified ingredients to international manufacturers is already a RM21 billion-a-year market.
Palm oil is growing fastest
Palm oil and its derivatives contributed RM4.57 billion, growing over 55% year on year — the fastest growth among the published categories.
What is not published
HDC did not publish separate 2025 figures for cosmetics or pharmaceuticals. Roughly RM5.7 billion of exports sits in categories not broken out publicly. We have not estimated it.
About these figures
The data on this page covers 2025 and was published by HDC and MITI. Halal statistics are revised and reissued; check the linked source before quoting a figure in a filing or a pitch. Where an official body has not published a number, we say so rather than estimate one.