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Key facts

  • Currency: Malaysian ringgit
  • Capital city: Kuala Lumpur
  • Region: South-Eastern Asia
  • Continent: Asia
  • Land area: 328,550 km²
  • Population: 33,938,221
  • Political Leader: Muhyiddin Yassin (Prime Minister)

Latest news

Malaysia delays implementation of luxury goods tax to study its effect on economy, cost of living

Read: SCMP

2024-03-29

EAM Jaishankar sees tech, trade booster for Malaysia ties

Read: Times of India

2024-03-28

Four endangered cockatoos smuggled from Malaysia seized at city airport

Read: Times of India

2024-03-27

Four cockatoos smuggled from Malaysia seized at Chennai airport

Read: Times of India

2024-03-27

Taiwan's Advantech aims to turn Malaysia into Southeast Asia hub

Read: Nikkei

2024-03-27

Malaysia's airport fee hikes leave bad taste in travellers' mouths

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-03-27

Malaysia bakes under worsening heatwave as temperatures near 40 degrees

Read: SCMP

2024-03-27

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 63.26 % of GDP
Expense 17.25 % of GDP
GDP 407,027,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 3.38 annual %
Self-employed 24.74 % of total employment
Tax revenue 11.21 % of GDP
Unemployment 3.63 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 21.53 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 85,710.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 1.18 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 245,139.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 42.28 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 46.60 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 9.28 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 1.16 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 0.68 % of total
Net energy imports -5.51 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.80 births per woman
Forest area 190,639 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 96.63 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -29,431.50 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 26.30 years
Methane emissions 37,175.60 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 9,265.10 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 16,596,389
Male Population 17,341,833
Renewable energy consumption 5.84 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 318,198.00 km²
Rural population 7,393,781
Urban land area 11,417.60 km²
Urban population 26,544,440
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 6.52 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 15.24 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.03 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 418.66 current US$
Health expenditure 4.12 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.17 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.88 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 75 years
Suicide mortality rate 5.70 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 97.40 % of population
Net migration 48,997
Press freedom 2.13


Politics

Armed forces personnel 136,000
Democracy score 6.88
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 0.96 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 13.57 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

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