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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Kuala Lumpur	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Malaysia	United States
Population:	32,366,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	98.0	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.2 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	16.61 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.17 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.49 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Malaysia	United States
Political stability:	71	67
Civil rights:	58	81
Health:	61	73
Climate:	39	62
Cost of Living:	45	35
Popularity:	48	72

Economy

	Malaysia	United States
Currency:	Ringgit (1 MYR = 100 Sen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-1.14 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	43.22 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,570 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	48 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	337,006 M US$	10.41 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	342,213 M US$	10.57 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	207,453 M US$	6.41 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	185,643 M US$	5.74 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	MYS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	144,403 km	4.46 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	1,851 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	7,200 km	0.22 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,772	0.055	3,652	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	4.23 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	148.30 bn kWh	4.58 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	3.00 m kWh	92.69 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	33.00 m kWh	1,019.59 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.62 m t	7,403.45 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	7,467,900	231	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	43,723,600	1351	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	422,470	13	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	28,985,373	896	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	3,358,800	104	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Malaysia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.88	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.51	2.59
Diabetes:	16.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.32 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.9 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	80.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	21.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Malaysia and United States

	Malaysia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.4 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	28.2 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	84 %	67 %
Rain days:	13.0	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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %