Malawi vs Malaysia: Physical Integrity Rights Score

Malawi
0.2204
in 2019
Malaysia
0.1103
in 2019
Malawi rank
120th
Malaysia rank
123rd

Physical Integrity Rights Score over time

  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
-1.5-1-0.500.5195719882019

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 0.2204 against 0.1103 in Malaysia, a difference of 0.1102.

That makes Malawi's figure about 2.0 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Malawi ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 120th and Malaysia ranks 123rd of 193 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Physical Integrity Rights Score
Source
Fariss et al. (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
193 places, 11,139 data points, 1946–2019
Last refreshed

The score captures the extent to which citizens are protected from government killings, torture, political imprisonments, extrajudicial executions, mass killings and disappearances. Large positive scores mean abuses are rare relative to other countries and years, large negative scores that abuses are relatively widespread.