Country comparison: Malaysia / Singapore

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

General information

	Malaysia	Singapore
Region:	Southeast Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	330,345 km²	719 km²
National language:	Malay	Chinese
Government form:	Federal constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1957 AD	1965 AD
Capital:	Kuala Lumpur	Singapore

Population

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	Malaysia	Singapore
Population:	33,574,000	5,454,000
Inhabitants/km²:	101.6	7,584.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 86 years
Average age:	Ø 29.2 years	Ø 35.6 years
Birth rate:	15.42 ‰	8.50 ‰
Death rate:	5.31 ‰	5.20 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.48 ‰	4.22 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Malaysia	Singapore
Political stability:	72	84
Civil rights:	57	89
Health:	60	79
Climate:	44	45
Cost of Living:	46	55
Popularity:	44	42

Economy

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	Malaysia	Singapore
Currency:	ringgit (1 MYR = 100 Sen)	Singapore dollar (1 SGD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	2.48 %	2.30 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	38.79 %	75.03 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.70 %	21.00 %
Average income:	10,710 US$	64,010 US$
Corruption index:	52 (bad)	15 (good)

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	372,981 M US$	11.11 M US$	396,987 M US$	72.79 M US$
Gross national product:	359,708 M US$	10.71 M US$	349,101 M US$	64.01 M US$
Exported goods:	256,659 M US$	7.64 M US$	733,782 M US$	134.55 M US$
Imported goods:	230,188 M US$	6.86 M US$	609,280 M US$	111.72 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	144,403 km	4.30 km	3,500 km	0.64 km
Harbours:	1,769	0.0527	3,321	0.6090
Passenger airports:	34	0.0010	2	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	136.90 bn kWh	4.08 m kWh	47.69 bn kWh	8.74 m kWh
Energy production:	148.30 bn kWh	4.42 m kWh	48.66 bn kWh	8.92 m kWh
Energy export:	3.00 m kWh	89.36 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	33.00 m kWh	982.91 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	253.27 m t	7,543.66 t	47.38 m t	8,687.89 t

Telecommunication

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	Malaysia	Singapore
International dialing:	+60	+65
Internet domain:	.my	.sg

	MYS total	MYS per 1000 inh.	SGP total	SGP per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,467,900	222	1,891,000	347
Mobile cellulars:	43,723,600	1302	8,444,800	1548
Internet server:	422,470	13	1,960,000	359
Internet users:	29,352,725	874	5,017,518	920
Broadband Internet:	3,734,100	111	1,516,100	278

Healthcare system

Details for Malaysia and Singapore

	Malaysia	Singapore
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.88	2.49
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.51	2.31
Diabetes:	16.7 %	5.5 %
HIV:	0.28 %	0.01 %
Tuberculosis:	0.97 ‰	0.48 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.5 %	16.5 %

Climate

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

	Malaysia	Singapore
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	31.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.4 °C	25.1 °C
Water temperature:	28.2 °C	27.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	84 %	84 %
Rain days:	13.0	11.4
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	5.8

Native languages

	Malaysia	Singapore
Malay:	58.4 %	11.9 %
Chinese:	7.4 %	50.8 %
English:	1.6 %	29.8 %
Tamil:	3.9 %	4.4 %
Hakka:	3.3 %	1.2 %
Iban:	2.8 %	n/a
Hindi:	n/a	1.2 %
Dusun:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	21.5 %	0.7 %

Religions

	Malaysia	Singapore
Islam:	61.3 %	14.3 %
Buddhism:	19.8 %	33.9 %
Christianity:	9.2 %	18.1 %
Nondenominational:	0.8 %	16.4 %
Taoism:	n/a	11.3 %
Hinduism:	6.3 %	5.2 %
Sikhism:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	0.8 %

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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