Country comparison Malaysia : United States

General information

	Malaysia	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	330,345 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Malay	English
Government form:	Federal constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1957 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Kuala Lumpur	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Malaysia	United States
Population:	31,950,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	96.7	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 27.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	16.75 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.09 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.49 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Malaysia	United States
Political stability:	72	72
Civil rights:	58	83
Health:	61	74
Climate:	41	64
Cost of Living:	44	34
Popularity:	46	86

Economy

	Malaysia	United States
Currency:	Ringgit (1 MYR = 100 Sen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.66 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	48.04 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	11,230 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	51 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	364,681 M US$	11.41 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	358,835 M US$	11.23 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	237,831 M US$	7.44 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	210,680 M US$	6.59 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	144,403 km	4.52 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	1,851 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	7,200 km	0.23 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,748	0.055	3,673	0.011
Airports:	114	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	136.90 bn kWh	4.28 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	148.30 bn kWh	4.64 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	3.00 m kWh	93.90 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	33.00 m kWh	1,032.87 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	248.29 m t	7,771.22 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Malaysia	United States
International dialing:	+60	+1
Internet domain:	.my	.us

	MYS total	MYS per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,474,400	203	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	44,601,400	1396	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	422,470	13	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	26,905,930	842	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Malaysia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.90	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.51	2.59
Diabetes:	16.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.34 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.9 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	21.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Malaysia and United States

	Malaysia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.4 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	28.2 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	84 %	67 %
Rain days:	12.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	7.2

Native languages

	Malaysia	United States
English:	1.6 %	82.1 %
Malay:	58.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	7.4 %	0.9 %
Tamil:	3.9 %	n/a
Hakka:	3.3 %	n/a
Iban:	2.8 %	n/a
Dusun:	1.1 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	21.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Malaysia	United States
Christianity:	9.2 %	78.5 %
Islam:	61.3 %	1.1 %
Buddhism:	19.8 %	0.7 %
Hinduism:	6.3 %	1.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	0.3 %	1.6 %
nondenominational:	0.8 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	15.3 %