Dengue in Malaysia
Country profile for Malaysia (Western Pacific): official dengue surveillance data reported to WHO, analysed by the SENTINARA early-warning engine.
Key facts
- Malaysia reported 63,752 dengue cases from January to August 2026, +60.9% compared with the same period of 2025, according to WHO Global Dengue Surveillance.
- Deaths reported in 2026 to August: 60 (32 in the same period of 2025).
- In 2025, the last full year, Malaysia recorded 55,399 cases, an incidence of 154.0 per 100,000 people and a case fatality rate of 0.085%.
- Automatic early-warning analysis is not available because there are fewer than 36 consecutive months of data, too short for seasonal analysis.
- OpenDengue holds complete annual totals for Malaysia since 1963.
Related pages
- Dengue in Cambodia
- Dengue in Indonesia
- Dengue in Laos
- Dengue in People's Republic of China
- Dengue in Singapore
- Dengue in Australia
Data updated 2026-10-31. Sources: WHO Global Dengue Surveillance; OpenDengue V1.3 (Clarke et al., 2025), doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.24259573; Dinas Kesehatan Kota Semarang; World Bank Open Data; NASA POWER.