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Public health and Covid-19 in Malaysia

Healthcare in Malaysia

Healthcare in Malaysia is rather above average in a worldwide comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Malaysia is 72.7 years for men and 77.4 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 3.6 years lower (men: 68.9 / women: 73.9 years).

A total of 418.66 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 4.1 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,177.15 USD (~ 10.9% of the respective GDP).


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Spread of COVID-19 in Malaysia

Since the beginning of the pandemic until June 8th, 2023, a total of 5,100,249 infected people and 37,087 deaths have been reported in Malaysia.

The total of 5,100,249 infected people currently represents 15.76 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 72.63 million vaccine doses have been administered as of May 28th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 28.14 million people who have received at least one vaccination (86.9 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 16.34 million people (50.5 percent).

27.55 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Malaysia (= 85.1 percent).
This makes Malaysia one of the best-supplied countries in the world. The vaccination rate is higher in 26 countries.

Weight and size

MaleFemale
Body height168 cm157 cm
BMI25.226.1
Weight71.5 kg64.0 kg

Diseases

MalaysiaØ worldwide
Diabetes *16.70%8.81%
Tuberculosis0.97‰1.34‰
Malaria0.0%5.7%
HIV / Aids0.03%0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.


Child vaccinations

MalaysiaØ worldwide
Measles96.0%81.7%
Hepatitis B0.09%0.08%
Tetanus9.5%0.0%
DTP *9.50%8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Malaysia, 22.5 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.


Medical supplies

Public health and Covid-19 in MalaysiaMedical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Malaysia is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 1.9 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 50,800 physicians in Malaysia, there are about 1.51 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality rate of major known diseases can be reduced as far as possible. For example, only about 18 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Drinking water supply

About 94 percent of the population has access to an immediately available, running drinking water supply. At least via springs and wells within a maximum distance of 30 minutes or supplied water, 97 peprcent of the population is supplied with largely clean drinking water. The population is thus better served than average. In a global comparison, only about 74 percent of the population has direct access to tested and always available drinking water. Within the European Union, this share is 98 percent. Only in a few countries does the proportion fall below 10 percent.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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