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Muhyiddin Yassin

Muhyiddin Yassin

🇲🇾Malaysia

Rank #258
Score: 50
About Muhyiddin Yassin

Muhyiddin Yassin (b.1947) served as Malaysia’s Prime Minister from March 2020 to August 2021. A veteran UMNO/Bersatu politician, his short premiership concentrated on pandemic response and emergency measures amid political fragmentation. He is a long-serving minister and regional politician with a technocratic and rural constituency base.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Malaysia HDI ≈ 0.8195/10
Source: UNDP — Malaysia country insights (2022)
GDP per capita
Malaysia GDP per capita (PPP) — World Bank context4/10
Source: World Bank — Malaysia country data (2023)
Gini coefficient
Gini index (country-level proxy)3/10
Source: World Bank — Gini index (Malaysia) (2019)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (ILO/World Bank)3/5
Source: World Bank / ILO — labour indicators (2021)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Malaysia country profile (Partly Free)3/10
Source: Freedom House — Malaysia report (2021)
Corruption index
Transparency Int'l CPI context (Malaysia)2/5
Source: Transparency International — CPI 2023 (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
No final criminal convictions recorded in public domain20/20
Source: Public record / press (no convictions) (2025)