Area
(km2) |
329,750 |
Population
(2000) |
22,218,00 |
Official
name of the country |
Malaysia |
Region |
East
Asia |
Type
of economy |
Upper
middle income |
Gross
Domestic Product per capita (2000) |
US$
4,035 |
Percentage
of population below the national
poverty line (1989) |
15.5 |
Human
Development Index, HDI |
0.774 |
HDI
rank out of 162 countries (1999) |
56 |
Duration
of compulsory education |
... |
School
life expectancy (1999) |
11.5
years |
Illiteracy
rate (2000) |
12.6 |
Gross
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
Pre-primary |
51.83 |
Primary |
101.44 |
Secondary
| 98.81 |
Tertiary |
23.26 |
Net
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
Pre-primary |
48.08 |
Primary |
100.00 |
Secondary
| 88.84 |
Tertiary |
... |
Sources:
United Nations Population Division and
Statistics Division (www.un.org); United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (www.unesco.org); UNESCO
Institute for Statistics (www.uis.unesco.org);
United Nations Development Programme
(www.undp.org); The World Bank (www.worldbank.org);
Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (www.fao.org).
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available.
Updated
version, March 2003. |
