Malaysia’s coastline is 45% longer than Sweden’s

Malaysia: 4,675 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Malaysia’s highest peak towers 1,995 m above Sweden’s

Malaysia: 4,095 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 25% of Malaysia, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Malaysia: 24.8% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Malaysia has 3.4 times as many people as Sweden

Malaysia: 36 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Malaysia is 4.2 times as densely populated as Sweden

Malaysia: 110 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 9.9 years older than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 30.1 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Malaysia: 1.54 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 8.0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 8% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 3.3 times as many refugees per resident as Malaysia

Malaysia: 4.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Malaysia none

Malaysia: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Malaysia has 2 official languages, Sweden 1

Malaysia: 2 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 42% larger than Malaysia’s

Malaysia: $472 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 75% more per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: Int$41,498 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Malaysia than in Sweden (Gini 11.4 points higher)

Malaysia: 40.7 (2021) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

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

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

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 3.8% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 3.8% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Malaysia 1.0%

Malaysia: 1% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Malaysia’s 12%

Malaysia: 12.4% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.8× Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 32% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 14 times as much on health per person as Malaysia

Malaysia: $450 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

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

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

Sweden has 88% more doctors per person than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Malaysia has 3% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

Malaysia: 2 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 2.5 times that in Malaysia

Malaysia: 5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

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

Malaysia: 23.6% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 17% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 16.9% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 1.25 points higher than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 6.01 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 11 times as much alcohol as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.8 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Malaysia has 1% more meat per person than Sweden

Malaysia: 69.1 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 440 kcal more food per person per day than Malaysia

Malaysia: 2,927 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Malaysia put in 876 more hours a year than in Sweden

Malaysia: 2,308 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 1.7 years longer than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 11.1 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 2.2 times as many tourists per resident as Malaysia (2019)

Malaysia: 0.29 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 9 more World Heritage sites than Malaysia (15 against 6)

Malaysia: 6 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Malaysia 15

Malaysia: 15 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

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

Malaysia: 98% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Malaysia is 8% faster than in Sweden

Malaysia: 269 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Malaysia and Sweden are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 77% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 77% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Malaysia 140

Malaysia: 140 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 5.9 times as long as Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 1,655 km (2021) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 42% more passengers per resident than those from Malaysia

Malaysia: 1.3 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 58% of Malaysia

Malaysia: 57.7% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Malaysia emits 2.3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sweden

Malaysia: 8.2 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 21% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 20.7% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Malaysia carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Malaysia: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 56% more likely to be murdered in Sweden than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Malaysia are 4.8 times as deadly as in Sweden

Malaysia: 16.2 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Malaysia is on average 21.7 °C warmer than Sweden

Malaysia: 26°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Malaysia gets 3.8 times as much rain as Sweden

Malaysia: 3,081 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)