Malaysia
59 figures for Malaysia, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Malaysia compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $13,125 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $41,498 (2025)
- Economic growth +5.2% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.8% (2025)
- Inflation +1.8% (2024)
- Exports 71.3% (2024)
- Income per person $32,533 (2023)
- Household wealth 91.2 (2014)
- Poorer households 0.0% (2014)
- Wealth inequality 0.04 (2014)
People
- Population 35.1 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.17% (2025)
- Births per woman 1.54 (2024)
- Typical age 30.1 (2023)
- Living in cities 77.4% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.819 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.973 (2023)
- People per household 5.6 (2014)
- People over 65 3.9% (2004)
- Children under 15 34.0% (2004)
Health
- Life expectancy 76.7 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 8.3 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 26 (2023)
- Health spending per person $450 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 96% (2024)
- Overweight adults 54.9% (2022)
- Homes with piped water 94.0% (2015)
Education
- Years of schooling 11.1 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.7 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 79.4% (2023)
- Education spending 3.5% (2022)
- Teens in school 80.6% (2004)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 8.16 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 290 million (2024)
- Forest cover 57.7% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 15.3 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 7.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.5 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 3,009 (2023)
- Access to electricity 100.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 20.4% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 43.1% (2024)
Technology
- Internet users 98.0% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 138.2 (2022)
- Home broadband 12.2 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 7 (2026)
- Homes with internet 7.0% (2004)
- Homes with a mobile phone 27.2% (2004)
Food and farming
- Hunger 2.5% (2023)
- Cereal yield 3,524 (2023)
- Farmland 26.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 9.2% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.50 (2025)
- Human rights 0.74 (2025)
- Control of corruption +0.56 (2025)
- Women in parliament 13.5% (2025)
- Military spending 1.0% (2024)
- Clean government 54.2 (2022)