Malaysia
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | Upper-middle income |
| Regional Group | Asia & Pacific |
| Population (Total) | 31,949,777 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.42% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 365,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 0.42% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 29,525 |
Performance Overview
IS03
MYS
Country
Malaysia
Score
61.43
Rank
34
Technology
50.70
People
60.21
Governance
71.43
Impact
63.36
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 68.41 | 53 |
| 2. Handset prices | 43.54 | 70 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 86.95 | 28 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 93.00 | 61 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 64.04 | 66 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 70.15 | 51 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | 97.18 | 28 |
| 1. GitHub commits | 3.37 | 68 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 49.92 | 56 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 70.92 | 47 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 71.90 | 25 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 78.89 | 12 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 27.66 | 30 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 30.32 | 28 |
| 5. Robot density | 15.32 | 27 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 56.32 | 21 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 100.00 | 1 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 2.18 | 45 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 38.94 | 46 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 90.19 | 5 |
| 1. Happiness | 53.76 | 80 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 91.93 | 18 |
| 3. Income inequality | 56.70 | 83 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 67.72 | 60 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 73.77 | 62 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 43.23 | 46 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 75.77 | 60 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 77.38 | 72 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 55.01 | 77 |
| 1. Internet users | 80.98 | 35 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 45.82 | 18 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 81.44 | 9 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 32.63 | 66 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 93.41 | 51 |
| 6. ICT skills | 86.39 | 10 |
| 1. Firms with website | 25.54 | 100 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 90.64 | 12 |
| 3. Professionals | 29.56 | 53 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 44.57 | 48 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 82.30 | 22 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 20.77 | 24 |
| 1. Government online services | 84.84 | 24 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 28.06 | 54 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 76.69 | 10 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 56.89 | 24 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 70.33 | 44 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 95.88 | 8 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 43.40 | 42 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 43.46 | 35 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 66.44 | 39 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 88.03 | 46 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 67.58 | 19 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | n/a | n/a |
| 1. E-Participation | 85.18 | 29 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 76.98 | 49 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 76.62 | 38 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 56.70 | 65 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 57.10 | 85 |