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Kuala Lumpur

overall rank: 8

1998 rank: 9

country: Malaysia

population: 1,420,000


snapshot: Kuala Lumpur at a glance rank
overall score 63 8
average income US$ 23,198.90 5
educational spending 1 329.96 16
ratio of house price to income 2 5.64 4
hospital beds per 1000 people 3.7 15
pollution 3 122 18
vehicles per km of road 105 14
criminal cases per 10,000 150a 31
TV sets per 1,000 people 220 19
inflation 4 -
GDP growth 1 30
unemployment rate 5.00 20
average class size 43.0 32
life expectancy 72.0 18.0
commute time 30 10
phones per 1,000 people 428 15
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Kuala Lumpur online

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Visitmalaysia.com: Kuala Lumpur

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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
a estimates
b national figure
c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
1 state educational spending, per capita US$
2 average house price divided by average annual income
3 suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m3)

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