KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's manufacturing industry capacity utilization rate stood at 82.6 percent in 2025, up 0.8 percentage points from last year, official data showed Tuesday.

The Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement on Tuesday that the manufacturing industry recorded a capacity utilization rate of 83.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 percentage points compared to the same quarter of 2024.