The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) on Saturday declared a dividend rate of 6.40 per cent for 2015 with a total payout amounting to RM38.24 billion.

The payout amount required for every one per cent dividend rate for the year was RM5.98 billion, which was 10.13 per cent higher, compared with RM5.43 billion in 2014, it said in a statement.

Below is the EPF dividend distribution from 2000 to 2015.

EPF dividend distribution from 2000 to 2015