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Districts side by side

Choose up to four districts (3/4)

Interior

Sandakan

Tawau

West Coast

Kudat

Signatures

Jalur, side by side

worse ← percentile in Sabah → betterstructure: lower → higher (not good/bad) boundary change
KeningauIncome: 67th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 78th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 67th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 54th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 73th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 35th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 69th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 54th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 46th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 46th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 73th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 52th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 50th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 20th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 62th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 58th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 46th percentile in Sabah (2025)
SipitangIncome: 63th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 59th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 85th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 73th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 35th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 23th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 77th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 15th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 42th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 0th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 65th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 52th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 77th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 8th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 42th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 38th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 81th percentile in Sabah (2025)
PaparIncome: 81th percentile in Sabah (2024)Poverty: 87th percentile in Sabah (2024)Gini: 78th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP/cap: 38th percentile in Sabah (2020)Services: 88th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveAgri: 12th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveMfg: 42th percentile in Sabah (2020) · descriptiveDensity: 73th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveInc. growth: 23th percentile in Sabah (2024)GDP growth: 92th percentile in Sabah (2020)LFPR: 81th percentile in Sabah (2024)Jobless: 73th percentile in Sabah (2024)Water: 88th percentile in Sabah (2024)Power: 64th percentile in Sabah (2024)Radiance: 77th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLit area: 85th percentile in Sabah (2025) · descriptiveLights growth: 58th percentile in Sabah (2025)

Line styles in charts below: Keningau = solid · Sipitang = dashed · Papar = dotted

Indicators

Latest values

IndicatorKeningauSipitangPapar
Median household incomeRM / monthRM 4,8012024 · #10RM 4,6062024 · #11RM 5,1772024 · #6
Absolute poverty rate% of households12.8%2024 · #715.3%2024 · #1212.0%2024 · #4
Gini coefficient of household incomeindex (0–1)0.3222024 · #100.3062024 · #50.3132024 · #7
GDP per capitaRM / person / yearRM 9,6312020 · #13RM 13,4002020 · #8RM 9,2712020 · #17
Real GDP growth, 2015–2020 average% / year0.5%2020 · #15−5.4%2020 · #273.6%2020 · #3
Median income growth since 2019% / year3.2%2024 · #153.2%2024 · #162.5%2024 · #21
Unemployment rate% of labour force8.7%2024 · #128.7%2024 · #128.3%2024 · #8
Labour force participation rate% of working-age71.7%2024 · #871.2%2024 · #1072.5%2024 · #6
Households with piped water% of households86.3%2024 · #1495.6%2024 · #797.7%2024 · #4
Households with electricity% of households99.3%2024 · #2195.6%2024 · #24100.0%2024 · #1
Agriculture share of GDP% of GDP23.5%2020 · #1817.0%2020 · #2115.3%2020 · #24
Manufacturing share of GDP% of GDP7.3%2020 · #910.4%2020 · #73.7%2020 · #16
Services share of GDP% of GDP64.3%2020 · #847.0%2020 · #1876.5%2020 · #4
Populationthousand persons157.82025 · #840.92025 · #22156.32025 · #9
Population densitypersons / km²432025 · #13162025 · #231212025 · #8

Bold teal marks the best value among the selection where higher or lower is clearly better. # = rank in Sabah. ⚑ = boundary change.

Trajectories

How they moved

Median household income
RM 4,000RM 4,500RM 5,000201920222024
Absolute poverty rate
10.0%15.0%20.0%201920222024
Unemployment rate
5.0%6.0%7.0%8.0%9.0%10.0%2018202020222024
GDP at constant 2015 prices
400.0600.0800.01,000.01,200.01,400.01,600.0201520162017201820192020