KUALA LUMPUR: The top 10% of households (T10) commanded 30.7% of total income in 2019, while the income share of the bottom 20% of households (B20) was only 5.9%, according to a Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) report.
The report, titled “Welfare in Malaysia Across Three Decades, ” also noted the wide variation of savings from household income between income groups.
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