Country comparison: Indonesia / Malaysia

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Indonesia and Malaysia. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Region:	Southeast Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	1,913,580 km²	330,345 km²
National language:	Malay	Malay
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1945 AD	1957 AD
Capital:	Jakarta	Kuala Lumpur

Population

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Population:	273,753,000	33,574,000
Inhabitants/km²:	143.1	101.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 31.1 years	Ø 29.2 years
Birth rate:	16.65 ‰	15.42 ‰
Death rate:	8.96 ‰	5.31 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.71 ‰	1.48 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Political stability:	63	71
Civil rights:	45	56
Health:	32	60
Climate:	40	44
Cost of Living:	54	46
Popularity:	39	44

Economy

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Currency:	Indonesian rupiah (1 IDR = 100 Sen)	ringgit (1 MYR =100 Sen)
Unemployment rate:	3.8 %	4.1 %
Inflation rate:	1.56 %	2.48 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	35.41 %	38.79 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	30.10 %	38.70 %
Average income:	4,180 US$	10,710 US$
Corruption index:	66 (bad)	53 (bad)

	IDN: total	per 1000 inh.	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,186,093 M US$	4.33 M US$	372,981 M US$	11.11 M US$
Gross national product:	1,143,082 M US$	4.18 M US$	359,708 M US$	10.71 M US$
Exported goods:	246,870 M US$	0.90 M US$	256,659 M US$	7.64 M US$
Imported goods:	217,715 M US$	0.80 M US$	230,188 M US$	6.86 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	IDN: total	per 1000 inh.	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	496,607 km	1.81 km	144,403 km	4.30 km
Railways:	8,159 km	0.03 km	1,851 km	0.06 km
Waterways:	21,579 km	0.08 km	7,200 km	0.21 km
Harbours:	10,427	0.0381	1,769	0.0527
Passenger airports:	101	0.0004	34	0.0010

Energy balance

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	IDN: total	per 1000 inh.	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	213.40 bn kWh	779,534.29 kWh	136.90 bn kWh	4.08 m kWh
Energy production:	235.40 bn kWh	859,898.65 kWh	148.30 bn kWh	4.42 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	3.00 m kWh	89.36 kWh
Energy imports:	693.00 m kWh	2,531.48 kWh	33.00 m kWh	982.91 kWh
CO2 emissions:	619.84 m t	2,264.23 t	253.27 m t	7,543.66 t

Telecommunication

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	Indonesia	Malaysia
International dialing:	+62	+60
Internet domain:	.id	.my

	IDN total	IDN per 1000 inh.	MYS total	MYS per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	8,998,814	33	8,247,100	246
Mobile cellulars:	365,872,608	1337	47,201,700	1406
Internet server:	1,344,000	5	422,470	13
Internet users:	170,012,990	621	32,483,202	968
Broadband Internet:	12,419,416	45	3,734,100	111

Healthcare system

Details for Indonesia and Malaysia

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.04	1.88
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.38	1.51
Diabetes:	6.3 %	16.7 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.28 %
Tuberculosis:	3.54 ‰	0.97 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	78.0 %
Smokers:	37.6 %	22.5 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Indonesia and Malaysia

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Daytime temperatures:	31.6 °C	32.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.0 °C	24.4 °C
Water temperature:	28.0 °C	28.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	83 %	84 %
Rain days:	12.8	13.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.4

Native languages

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Malay:	12.1 %	58.4 %
Javanese:	39.4 %	n/a
Sunda:	15.8 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	7.4 %
Madura:	4.3 %	n/a
Tamil:	n/a	3.9 %
Hakka:	0.3 %	3.3 %
Iban:	n/a	2.8 %
Minangkabau:	2.4 %	n/a
Batakki:	2.2 %	n/a
Bugi:	2.2 %	n/a
Banja:	1.8 %	n/a
Balinesian:	1.7 %	n/a
English:	n/a	1.6 %
Dusun:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	17.8 %	21.5 %

Religions

	Indonesia	Malaysia
Islam:	87.2 %	61.3 %
Buddhism:	n/a	19.8 %
Christianity:	9.9 %	9.2 %
Hinduism:	1.7 %	6.3 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	0.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	1.2 %	2.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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