Spain’s coastline is 6% longer than Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 4,675 km (2026 edition) · Spain: 4,964 km (2026 edition)

Malaysia’s highest peak towers 377 m above Spain’s

Malaysia: 4,095 m (2026 edition) · Spain: 3,718 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Spain, versus 25% of Malaysia

Malaysia: 24.8% (2024) · Spain: 49.3% (2024)

Spain has 37% more people than Malaysia

Malaysia: 36 million (2025) · Spain: 49.4 million (2025)

Malaysia is 11% more densely populated than Spain

Malaysia: 110 per km² (2025) · Spain: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Spain is 15 years older than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 30.1 years (2023) · Spain: 44.9 years (2023)

Women in Malaysia have 0.4 more children on average than in Spain

Malaysia: 1.54 children per woman (2024) · Spain: 1.1 children per woman (2024)

22% of people in Spain are 65 or older, versus 8.0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 8% (2025) · Spain: 21.6% (2025)

Spain hosts 2.5 times as many refugees per resident as Malaysia

Malaysia: 4.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Spain: 10.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Spain has produced 1.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Malaysia none

Malaysia: 0 (2026) · Spain: 1.4 (2026)

Malaysia has 2 official languages, Spain 1

Malaysia: 2 (2026) · Spain: 1 (2026)

Spain’s economy is 4 times the size of Malaysia’s

Malaysia: $472 billion (2025) · Spain: $1.91 trillion (2025)

Spain produces 44% more per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: Int$41,498 (2025) · Spain: Int$59,868 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Malaysia than in Spain (Gini 7.3 points higher)

Malaysia: 40.7 (2021) · Spain: 33.4 (2023)

0.8% of people in Spain live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0% (2021) · Spain: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 10% in Spain, versus 3.8% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 3.8% (2025) · Spain: 10.4% (2025)

Spain spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Malaysia 1.0%

Malaysia: 1% (2025) · Spain: 2.1% (2025)

Spain’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Malaysia’s 12%

Malaysia: 12.4% (2024) · Spain: 14.9% (2024)

Spain’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 32% (2025) · Spain: 65% (2025)

Spain spends 6.9 times as much on health per person as Malaysia

Malaysia: $450 (2023) · Spain: $3,107 (2023)

A baby in Malaysia is 2.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Spain

Malaysia: 7 per 1,000 (2024) · Spain: 2.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Spain has 83% more doctors per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Spain: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

Spain has 48% more hospital beds per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2 per 1,000 (2023) · Spain: 2.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Spain is 42% higher than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 5 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 7.1 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Malaysia are obese, versus 19% in Spain

Malaysia: 23.6% (2024) · Spain: 18.9% (2024)

28% of adults in Spain smoke, versus 17% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 16.9% (2024) · Spain: 27.6% (2024)

People in Spain rate their lives 0.54 points higher than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 6.01 (2025) · Spain: 6.54 (2025)

Adults in Spain drink 15 times as much alcohol as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.8 litres (2023) · Spain: 12.1 litres (2023)

Spain has 46% more meat per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 69.1 kg (2023) · Spain: 100.8 kg (2023)

Spain has 451 kcal more food per person per day than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2,927 kcal (2023) · Spain: 3,377 kcal (2023)

Workers in Malaysia put in 670 more hours a year than in Spain

Malaysia: 2,308 hours (2023) · Spain: 1,638 hours (2023)

Adults in Malaysia went to school 0.33 years longer than in Spain

Malaysia: 11.1 years (2023) · Spain: 10.8 years (2023)

Spain welcomed 6.6 times as many tourists per resident as Malaysia (2019)

Malaysia: 0.29 (2022) · Spain: 1.92 (2024)

Spain has 44 more World Heritage sites than Malaysia (50 against 6)

Malaysia: 6 (2026) · Spain: 50 (2026)

Spain has won 195 Olympic medals, Malaysia 15

Malaysia: 15 (2026 edition) · Spain: 195 (2026 edition)

98% of people in Malaysia are online, versus 96% in Spain

Malaysia: 98% (2024) · Spain: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Spain is 21% faster than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 269 Mbps (2026) · Spain: 324 Mbps (2026)

Malaysia and Spain are practically level

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

81% of people in Spain live in cities, versus 77% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 77% (2025) · Spain: 81% (2025)

Malaysia has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Spain 130

Malaysia: 140 (2024) · Spain: 130 (2024)

Spain’s railway network is 9.6 times as long as Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 1,655 km (2021) · Spain: 15,963 km (2021)

Airlines from Spain fly 47% more passengers per resident than those from Malaysia

Malaysia: 1.3 (2023) · Spain: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 58% of Malaysia, but only 38% of Spain

Malaysia: 57.7% (2024) · Spain: 38.2% (2024)

The average person in Malaysia emits 77% more CO₂ than someone in Spain

Malaysia: 8.2 t (2024) · Spain: 4.6 t (2024)

56% of Spain’s electricity is renewable, versus 21% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 20.7% (2025) · Spain: 55.9% (2025)

The air in Malaysia carries 53% more fine dust than in Spain

Malaysia: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Spain: 10 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 6% more likely to be murdered in Malaysia than in Spain

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

Roads in Malaysia are 2.6 times as deadly as in Spain

Malaysia: 16.2 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 6.2 per 100k (2023)

Malaysia is on average 11.2 °C warmer than Spain

Malaysia: 26°C (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 14.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Malaysia gets 4.6 times as much rain as Spain

Malaysia: 3,081 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 665 mm (2016–2025 avg)