Malaysia's social indicators

We are way from achieving developed country's status, judging from the social and other indicators below

Interestingly, we have more foreign students studying locally here vs. local student studying abroad.

Doctor to population ratio (Malaysia) (WHO recommendation)	1 to 940 1 to 600	Ministry of Health, June 2010
Nurse to population ratio (Malaysia) (WHO recommendation)	1 to 340 1 to 200	Ministry of Health, 2009
Dentist to population ratio (Malaysia) (WHO recommendation)	1 to 7,840 1 to 4,000	Ministry of Health, Jan 2010
Pharmacist to population ratio (Malaysia) (WHO recomm)	1 to 3,878 1 to 2,000	Ministry of Health, 2009
Police to population ratio (Malaysia) (Interpol recommendation)	1 to 500 1 to 250	Malaysia Productivity Corp / Royal Malaysian Police
Researchers per 1 mil inhabitants (Malaysia) (S'pore) (Japan)	729 7,059 6,934	Unescap
R&D expenditure as % of GDP (Malaysia) (Singapore) (Japan)	0.6% 2.6% 3.4%	Unescap
No of Malaysian students studying abroad, of which % are sponsored % are self-sponsored No of foreign students studying in local higher education institutions, of which % are from South & East Asia and SEA % from West Asia % from Africa % from other countries	79, 254 -- 36% -- 64% 86, 923 -- 40% -- 27.4% -- 24.2% -- 8.4%	Ministry of Higher Education, 2010