Norway’s coastline is 5.4 times as long as Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 4,675 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Malaysia’s highest peak towers 1,626 m above Norway’s

Malaysia: 4,095 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 25% of Malaysia, versus 2.7% of Norway

Malaysia: 24.8% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Malaysia has 6.4 times as many people as Norway

Malaysia: 36 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Malaysia is 7.1 times as densely populated as Norway

Malaysia: 110 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 9.5 years older than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 30.1 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

Women in Malaysia have 0.1 more children on average than in Norway

Malaysia: 1.54 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 8.0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 8% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 5.3 times as many refugees per resident as Malaysia

Malaysia: 4.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Malaysia none

Malaysia: 0 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Malaysia 2

Malaysia: 2 (2026) · Norway: 3 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 12% larger than Malaysia’s

Malaysia: $472 billion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 2.5 times as much per person as Malaysia

Malaysia: Int$41,498 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Malaysia than in Norway (Gini 14.2 points higher)

Malaysia: 40.7 (2021) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

Norway and Malaysia are practically level

Malaysia: 0% (2021) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.6% in Norway, versus 3.8% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 3.8% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Malaysia 1.0%

Malaysia: 1% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Malaysia’s 12%

Malaysia: 12.4% (2024) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 2.9× Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 32% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 18 times as much on health per person as Malaysia

Malaysia: $450 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Malaysia is 3.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Malaysia: 7 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 2.1 times as many doctors per person as Malaysia

Malaysia: 2.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 68% more hospital beds per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Norway is 2.3 times that in Malaysia

Malaysia: 5 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Malaysia are obese, versus 21% in Norway

Malaysia: 23.6% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

17% of adults in Malaysia smoke, versus 13% in Norway

Malaysia: 16.9% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 1.24 points higher than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 6.01 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 8.6 times as much alcohol as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.8 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Norway has 2% more meat per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 69.1 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 549 kcal more food per person per day than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2,927 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Malaysia put in 895 more hours a year than in Norway

Malaysia: 2,308 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 2 years longer than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 11.1 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 3.1 times as many tourists per resident as Malaysia (2019)

Malaysia: 0.29 (2022) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Norway has 2 more World Heritage sites than Malaysia (8 against 6)

Malaysia: 6 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Malaysia 15

Malaysia: 15 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 98% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 98% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Malaysia is 18% faster than in Norway

Malaysia: 269 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

Malaysia and Norway are practically level

Malaysia: 100% (2024) · Norway: 100% (2024)

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 77% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 77% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Malaysia has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Norway 109

Malaysia: 140 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 2.3 times as long as Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 1,655 km (2021) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Malaysia: 1.3 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 58% of Malaysia, but only 33% of Norway

Malaysia: 57.7% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Malaysia emits 22% more CO₂ than someone in Norway

Malaysia: 8.2 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 21% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 20.7% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Malaysia carries 2.3 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Malaysia: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 1% more likely to be murdered in Malaysia than in Norway

Malaysia: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Malaysia are 5.6 times as deadly as in Norway

Malaysia: 16.2 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Malaysia is on average 24.4 °C warmer than Norway

Malaysia: 26°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Malaysia gets 2.4 times as much rain as Norway

Malaysia: 3,081 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)