Malaysia: 4,675 km (2026 edition) · Uganda: 0 km (2026 edition)

Uganda’s highest peak towers 1,015 m above Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 4,095 m (2026 edition) · Uganda: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 80% of Uganda, versus 25% of Malaysia

Malaysia: 24.8% (2024) · Uganda: 80.3% (2024)

Uganda has 43% more people than Malaysia

Malaysia: 36 million (2025) · Uganda: 51.4 million (2025)

Uganda is 2.3 times as densely populated as Malaysia

Malaysia: 110 per km² (2025) · Uganda: 256 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Malaysia is 14 years older than in Uganda

Malaysia: 30.1 years (2023) · Uganda: 16.5 years (2023)

Women in Uganda have 2.6 more children on average than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 1.54 children per woman (2024) · Uganda: 4.17 children per woman (2024)

8.0% of people in Malaysia are 65 or older, versus 2.2% in Uganda

Malaysia: 8% (2025) · Uganda: 2.2% (2025)

Uganda hosts 9 times as many refugees per resident as Malaysia

Malaysia: 4.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Uganda: 37.7 per 1,000 (2025)

Malaysia and Uganda are practically level

Malaysia: 0 (2026) · Uganda: 0 (2026)

Malaysia and Uganda are practically level

Malaysia: 2 (2026) · Uganda: 2 (2026)

Malaysia’s economy is 7.6 times the size of Uganda’s

Malaysia: $472 billion (2025) · Uganda: $62 billion (2025)

Malaysia produces 12 times as much per person as Uganda

Malaysia: Int$41,498 (2025) · Uganda: Int$3,488 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Malaysia than in Uganda (Gini 2.5 points higher)

Malaysia: 40.7 (2021) · Uganda: 38.2 (2023)

54% of people in Uganda live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0% (2021) · Uganda: 54.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 3.8% in Malaysia, versus 2.7% in Uganda

Malaysia: 3.8% (2025) · Uganda: 2.7% (2025)

Uganda spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Malaysia 1.0%

Malaysia: 1% (2025) · Uganda: 2% (2025)

Uganda and Malaysia are practically level

Malaysia: 12.4% (2024) · Uganda: 12.6% (2024)

Uganda’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× Malaysia’s

Malaysia: 32% (2025) · Uganda: 35% (2025)

Malaysia spends 10 times as much on health per person as Uganda

Malaysia: $450 (2023) · Uganda: $45 (2023)

A baby in Uganda is 5.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 7 per 1,000 (2024) · Uganda: 35.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Malaysia has 12 times as many doctors per person as Uganda

Malaysia: 2.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Uganda: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Malaysia: 2 per 1,000 (2023) · Uganda: no data

The suicide rate in Uganda is 3.4 times that in Malaysia

Malaysia: 5 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Malaysia are obese, versus 8.2% in Uganda

Malaysia: 23.6% (2024) · Uganda: 8.2% (2024)

17% of adults in Malaysia smoke, versus 7.5% in Uganda

Malaysia: 16.9% (2024) · Uganda: 7.5% (2024)

People in Malaysia rate their lives 1.51 points higher than in Uganda

Malaysia: 6.01 (2025) · Uganda: 4.49 (2025)

Adults in Uganda drink 5 times as much alcohol as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.8 litres (2023) · Uganda: 4 litres (2023)

Malaysia has 6.4 times as much meat per person as Uganda

Malaysia: 69.1 kg (2023) · Uganda: 10.9 kg (2023)

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

Malaysia: 2,927 kcal (2023) · Uganda: 2,378 kcal (2023)

Workers in Malaysia put in 180 more hours a year than in Uganda

Malaysia: 2,308 hours (2023) · Uganda: 2,128 hours (2023)

Adults in Malaysia went to school 4.8 years longer than in Uganda

Malaysia: 11.1 years (2023) · Uganda: 6.3 years (2023)

Malaysia welcomed 8.1 times as many tourists per resident as Uganda (2019)

Malaysia: 0.29 (2022) · Uganda: 0.04 (2019)

Malaysia has 3 more World Heritage sites than Uganda (6 against 3)

Malaysia: 6 (2026) · Uganda: 3 (2026)

Malaysia has won 15 Olympic medals, Uganda 13

Malaysia: 15 (2026 edition) · Uganda: 13 (2026 edition)

98% of people in Malaysia are online, versus 8.9% in Uganda

Malaysia: 98% (2024) · Uganda: 9% (2024)

Home internet in Malaysia is 5 times as fast as in Uganda

Malaysia: 269 Mbps (2026) · Uganda: 53 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Malaysia have electricity, versus 55% in Uganda

Malaysia: 100% (2024) · Uganda: 55.3% (2024)

77% of people in Malaysia live in cities, versus 32% in Uganda

Malaysia: 77% (2025) · Uganda: 32% (2025)

Malaysia has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Uganda 83

Malaysia: 140 (2024) · Uganda: 83 (2024)

Malaysia’s railway network is 33% longer than Uganda’s

Malaysia: 1,655 km (2021) · Uganda: 1,244 km (2014)

Airlines from Malaysia fly 3,081 times as many passengers per resident as those from Uganda

Malaysia: 1.3 (2023) · Uganda: 0.00042 (2023)

Forest covers 58% of Malaysia, but only 12% of Uganda

Malaysia: 57.7% (2024) · Uganda: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in Malaysia emits 64 times as much CO₂ as someone in Uganda

Malaysia: 8.2 t (2024) · Uganda: 0.1 t (2024)

97% of Uganda’s electricity is renewable, versus 21% in Malaysia

Malaysia: 20.7% (2025) · Uganda: 97.1% (2024)

The air in Uganda carries 2.4 times as much fine dust as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Uganda: 37.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 12 times as likely to be murdered in Uganda as in Malaysia

Malaysia: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Uganda are 49% deadlier than in Malaysia

Malaysia: 16.2 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 24.1 per 100k (2023)

Malaysia is on average 2.3 °C warmer than Uganda

Malaysia: 26°C (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Malaysia gets 2.1 times as much rain as Uganda

Malaysia: 3,081 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 1,470 mm (2016–2025 avg)