Malaysia's life expectancy rose from 72.0 yrs in 1995 to 76.8 yrs in 2024.
Malaysia · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
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Malaysia's healthy life expectancy at birth fell from 64.1 yrs in 2000 to 63.9 yrs in 2021.
Malaysia's infant mortality fell from 10.0 ‰ in 1995 to 7.0 ‰ in 2024.
Malaysia's under-5 mortality rate fell from 13.3 ‰ in 1995 to 8.3 ‰ in 2024.
Malaysia's maternal mortality ratio fell from 44.0 /100k in 1994 to 26.0 /100k in 2023.
Malaysia's ncd mortality fell from 22.3 % in 2000 to 19.9 % in 2021.
Malaysia's suicide mortality rate rose from 4.4 /100k in 2000 to 5.7 /100k in 2021.
Malaysia's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 26.8 /100k in 2000 to 22.5 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts155th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)down −1.7 %99th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.8 pts129th of 192
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- Physiciansup +2.2 %26th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +0.7 %40th of 79
- Hospital bedsup +1.0 %48th of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts46th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −2.0 pts81st of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts58th of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −1.0 %143rd of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.1 pts53rd of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.2 pts42nd of 141