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title: "Blog | Build Malaysia"
description: "Explainers and notes on how Malaysia's federal government raises and spends money."
url: "https://buildmalaysia.com/blog"
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Blog

# Notes on the numbers

Explainers on the budget and the accounts, written from the same documents as the rest of the site.

- [![Cover: total federal spending rose from RM 252.17 bn in 2016 to RM 412.70 bn in 2025, shown as ten bars.](https://buildmalaysia.com/_emdash/api/media/file/01M6XYVFVC5SN1XRGJEX5QJVF7.png) 8 November 2026 4 min read ## Ten years of federal spending: what the audited accounts show From 2016 to 2025 federal spending rose 63.7%, to RM 412.70 bn. Debt charges doubled, subsidies rose fivefold and fell back, and revenue covered the running costs every year.](https://buildmalaysia.com/blog/ten-years-of-federal-spending)