Real median household income during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how real median household income changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Prime minister	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Najib Razak	3 Apr 2009 – 10 May 2018 from 2009	+57.1% 2009 → 2016	+6.7%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. RM per month, in today's money · Department of Statistics Malaysia (OpenDOSM, data.gov.my), Household Income Survey, median gross monthly household income (hh_income), the survey years, adjusted for inflation with the CPI · Malaysia data · as of Sep 2026.