: In this study, we examined the geographical distribution (the spatial structure) of mortality
and prosperity in Malaysia. In addition we proposed an approach to investigate the association between
clustering patterns of mortality and prosperity across different areas of the country. To characterize the
geographic pattern of mortality and prosperity, three indicators (infant, neonatal, and stillbirth) were
proposed for mortality and also three indicators (class1, class2 and class3) for occupation were
proposed for prosperity. These indicators measure the level of mortality and prosperity factors for all
81 districts in peninsula Malaysia based on 1993 census data. Two statistics of spatial autocorrelation
based on sharing boundary neighbours known as global and local Moran are used to investigate the
global and local clustering respectively. We found that both mortality and prosperity varied
significantly across the different districts. Also, we found many significant local clusters in both
mortality (in the north, south and mid-west), and in prosperity (in the north and west). A significant
association was found between mortality and prosperity based on the spatial correlation coefficient.