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🇲🇾 Malaysia
MYS MY RM Malaysian ringgit (MYR)
Every statistic we track for Malaysia — 127 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$46,986
74.7 yrs
6.00
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.5 | #144/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 31.4 | #126/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 29.8 | #44/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 34.2 | #45/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 110.7 | #107/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 2,477 | #89/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 76.9% | #67/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #68/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 98% | #12/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 138.2 | #40/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 73% | #5/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 22% | #98/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 0.8 | #173/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.8 | #138/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 3.9% | #157/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 40.8% | #72/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 6.8 | #134/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 74.7 | #81/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 75.1 | #70/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 5.6 | #121/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 17.4% | #95/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #140/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 80 | #55/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3.5% | #60/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 12 | #26/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 409 | #53/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 388 | #60/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 416 | #52/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 8.3 | #26/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 3,009 | #34/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 20.4% | #120/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
| Civil Liberties (V-Dem) | 0.7 | #92/179 | 2025 |
| Clean Elections (V-Dem) | 0.6 | #83/179 | 2025 |
| Control of Corruption (QoG) | 0.5 | #59/192 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 50 | #57/179 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index (QoG) | 50 | #56/177 | 2024 |
| Deliberative Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.4 | #81/179 | 2025 |
| Egalitarian Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.4 | #77/179 | 2025 |
| Electoral Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.5 | #87/179 | 2025 |
| Freedom House Status (QoG) | 2 | #85/193 | 2024 |
| Freedom in the World Score | 53 | #114/196 | 2024 |
| Freedom of Expression (V-Dem) | 0.6 | #110/179 | 2025 |
| Gender Equality (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #88/179 | 2025 |
| Government Effectiveness (QoG) | 0.9 | #36/192 | 2024 |
| Judicial Constraints on Executive (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #63/179 | 2025 |
| Liberal Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.4 | #88/179 | 2025 |
| Military Spending | 1% | #108/150 | 2025 |
| Participatory Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.3 | #87/179 | 2025 |
| Political Corruption (V-Dem) | 0.3 | #119/179 | 2025 |
| Press Freedom (RSF) (QoG) | 52.1 | #104/173 | 2024 |
| Rule of Law (V-Dem) | 0.7 | #67/179 | 2025 |
| Voice & Accountability (QoG) | -0.1 | #102/192 | 2024 |
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 39% | #31/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 18% | #9/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 52.7 | #92/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 69% | #6/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 30% | #33/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 1.5 | #143/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 13.9 | #81/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 78.5% | #117/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 51.3% | #53/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 8.6 | #37/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 17.7% | #107/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 3.6% | #95/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 3.6 | #101/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 63.7 | #24/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 14.3 | #37/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 84.7% | #14/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6 | #71/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1.1 | #4/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.8 | #51/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #18/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #115/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #78/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.2 | #92/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.8 | #67/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 4.7% | #132/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 89.1% | #33/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 90.9% | #22/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 26 | #45/65 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 50 | #33/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 104 | #1/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #29/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.4 | #31/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 11.7% | #81/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 2.2% | #117/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 6.2 | #12/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.8 | #16/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 5.3 | #9/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 61.7% | #118/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 58.3% | #99/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.1 | #26/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 36 | #56/65 | 2010 |
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