Malaysia’s coastline is 2.4 times as long as Myanmar’s

Malaysia: 4,675 km (2026 edition) · Myanmar: 1,930 km (2026 edition)

Myanmar’s highest peak towers 1,775 m above Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 4,095 m (2026 edition) · Myanmar: 5,870 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 25% of Malaysia, versus 20% of Myanmar

Malaysia: 24.8% (2024) · Myanmar: 19.9% (2024)

Myanmar has 52% more people than Malaysia

Malaysia: 36 million (2025) · Myanmar: 54.9 million (2025)

Malaysia is 30% more densely populated than Myanmar

Malaysia: 110 per km² (2025) · Myanmar: 84 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Malaysia is 0.52 years older than in Myanmar

Malaysia: 30.1 years (2023) · Myanmar: 29.5 years (2023)

Women in Myanmar have 0.6 more children on average than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 1.54 children per woman (2024) · Myanmar: 2.1 children per woman (2024)

8.0% of people in Malaysia are 65 or older, versus 7.5% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 8% (2025) · Myanmar: 7.5% (2025)

Malaysia: 4.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Myanmar: 0 per 1,000 (2025)

Myanmar has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Malaysia none

Malaysia: 0 (2026) · Myanmar: 0.2 (2026)

Malaysia has 2 official languages, Myanmar 1

Malaysia: 2 (2026) · Myanmar: 1 (2026)

Malaysia’s economy is 5.8 times the size of Myanmar’s

Malaysia: $472 billion (2025) · Myanmar: $81.7 billion (2025)

Malaysia produces 6.9 times as much per person as Myanmar

Malaysia: Int$41,498 (2025) · Myanmar: Int$6,012 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Malaysia than in Myanmar (Gini 10 points higher)

Malaysia: 40.7 (2021) · Myanmar: 30.7 (2017)

10% of people in Myanmar live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0% (2021) · Myanmar: 10.3% (2017)

Unemployment is 3.8% in Malaysia, versus 3.0% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 3.8% (2025) · Myanmar: 3% (2025)

Myanmar spends 6.6% of its GDP on the military, Malaysia 1.0%

Malaysia: 1% (2025) · Myanmar: 6.6% (2024)

Malaysia’s central government collects 12% of GDP in tax, Myanmar’s 6.0%

Malaysia: 12.4% (2024) · Myanmar: 6% (2019)

Malaysia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Myanmar’s

Malaysia: 32% (2025) · Myanmar: 25% (2025)

Malaysia spends 8 times as much on health per person as Myanmar

Malaysia: $450 (2023) · Myanmar: $56 (2023)

A baby in Myanmar is 4.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 7 per 1,000 (2024) · Myanmar: 32.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Malaysia has 3.1 times as many doctors per person as Myanmar

Malaysia: 2.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Myanmar: 0.8 per 1,000 (2019)

Malaysia has 83% more hospital beds per person than Myanmar

Malaysia: 2 per 1,000 (2023) · Myanmar: 1.1 per 1,000 (2020)

The suicide rate in Malaysia is 22% higher than in Myanmar

Malaysia: 5 per 100k (2023) · Myanmar: 4.1 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Malaysia are obese, versus 8.3% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 23.6% (2024) · Myanmar: 8.3% (2024)

43% of adults in Myanmar smoke, versus 17% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 16.9% (2024) · Myanmar: 43.4% (2024)

People in Malaysia rate their lives 1.72 points higher than in Myanmar

Malaysia: 6.01 (2025) · Myanmar: 4.29 (2025)

Adults in Myanmar drink 2.3 times as much alcohol as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.8 litres (2023) · Myanmar: 1.9 litres (2023)

Malaysia has 3.3 times as much meat per person as Myanmar

Malaysia: 69.1 kg (2023) · Myanmar: 20.9 kg (2023)

Malaysia has 117 kcal more food per person per day than Myanmar

Malaysia: 2,927 kcal (2023) · Myanmar: 2,809 kcal (2023)

Workers in Malaysia put in 111 more hours a year than in Myanmar

Malaysia: 2,308 hours (2023) · Myanmar: 2,197 hours (2023)

Adults in Malaysia went to school 4.7 years longer than in Myanmar

Malaysia: 11.1 years (2023) · Myanmar: 6.4 years (2023)

Malaysia welcomed 20 times as many tourists per resident as Myanmar (2019)

Malaysia: 0.29 (2022) · Myanmar: 0.01 (2024)

Malaysia has 4 more World Heritage sites than Myanmar (6 against 2)

Malaysia: 6 (2026) · Myanmar: 2 (2026)

Malaysia has won 15 Olympic medals, Myanmar none

Malaysia: 15 (2026 edition) · Myanmar: 0 (2026 edition)

98% of people in Malaysia are online, versus 45% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 98% (2024) · Myanmar: 45% (2020)

Home internet in Malaysia is 6 times as fast as in Myanmar

Malaysia: 269 Mbps (2026) · Myanmar: 45 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Malaysia have electricity, versus 80% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 100% (2024) · Myanmar: 80.4% (2024)

77% of people in Malaysia live in cities, versus 31% in Myanmar

Malaysia: 77% (2025) · Myanmar: 31% (2025)

Malaysia has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Myanmar 114

Malaysia: 140 (2024) · Myanmar: 114 (2024)

Malaysia: 1,655 km (2021) · Myanmar: no data

Airlines from Malaysia fly 20 times as many passengers per resident as those from Myanmar

Malaysia: 1.3 (2023) · Myanmar: 0.06 (2023)

Forest covers 58% of Malaysia, but only 42% of Myanmar

Malaysia: 57.7% (2024) · Myanmar: 42% (2024)

The average person in Malaysia emits 14 times as much CO₂ as someone in Myanmar

Malaysia: 8.2 t (2024) · Myanmar: 0.6 t (2024)

48% of Myanmar’s electricity is renewable, versus 21% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 20.7% (2025) · Myanmar: 47.9% (2024)

The air in Myanmar carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Myanmar: 31.2 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.5 times as likely to be murdered in Myanmar as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Myanmar: 2.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Myanmar are 35% deadlier than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 16.2 per 100k (2023) · Myanmar: 21.9 per 100k (2023)

Malaysia is on average 1.9 °C warmer than Myanmar

Malaysia: 26°C (2016–2025 avg) · Myanmar: 24.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Malaysia gets 38% more rain than Myanmar

Malaysia: 3,081 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Myanmar: 2,233 mm (2016–2025 avg)