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Total dental spend (US$): Malaysia, 2021
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Malaysia spent about US$358.58 million on dental care in 2021, according to Health Transformation Office KKMNOW dashboard. Basis: other.
Comparability B Confidence medium
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Health Transformation Office, Ministry of Health Malaysia (data: WHO GHED). (2026). Total dental spend (US$): Malaysia, as of 2021-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/my/dental-spend-total-usd/2021/
Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/my/dental-spend-total-usd/2021/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Record
- Value
- US$358.58 million
- Exact stored value
- 358,575,700 USD
- Unit conversion
- Stored value = quoted number × 1000000 (million USD to USD). Declared by the data desk.
- Unit
- USD
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- medium
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- other
- Scope
- other
- Comparability
- Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
"_usd":{..."hc132":[324.1103,358.5757]
Locator: KKMNOW SHA 2011 dashboard, embedded JSON payload.dims.hc.values._usd.hc132 (Dental outpatient curative care), years [2020, 2021], unit 'USD million'
Local definition
SHA 2011 HC.1.3.2 Dental outpatient curative care, current health expenditure, all financing sources (WHO GHED)
Source
Health Transformation Office, Ministry of Health Malaysia (data: WHO GHED): KKMNOW dashboard: Health Accounts (SHA 2011), using WHO Global Health Expenditure Database. Registry entry: my-kkmnow-sha2011.
Notes
USD 358.58 million (2021); 2020 USD 324.11 million. In RM: 1,485.686 million (2021), 1,362.392 million (2020). Function-based; excludes dental goods counted under medical goods and dental inpatient care. Provider view (HP.3.2 dental practices, all functions): USD 529.41 million / RM 2,193.506 million in 2021. MNHA 2022 report Table A3.3 gives RM 1,371 million for 2020 (earlier GHED vintage). WHO oral health country profile estimate for 2019: USD 226.8 million (ORALHEALTH_DENTALHEALTHCARE_EXP_TOTAL, modelled).
Metric definition
Total dental spending All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | US$358.58 million | other | Comparability B | KKMNOW dashboard: Health Accounts (SHA 2011), using WHO Global Health Expenditure Database |
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