According to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)’s website news release on September 23, 2022, the international reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia amounted to USD106.3 billion as at 15 September 2022. The reserves position is sufficient to finance 5.3 months of imports of goods and services, and is 1.0 time of the total short-term external debt.
Under the previous import coverage measure, reserves is sufficient to finance 5.9 months of retained imports of goods. For more information on the new indicator, please refer to the article on “Expansion of the Measure on Reserve Coverage of Imports – from Retained Imports to Imports of Goods and Services” in BNM’s Quarterly Bulletin for the Fourth Quarter of 2021 publication, page 27, which can be accessed at Quarterly Bulletin 4Q 2021.
