National and international honours, listed by the date:
- 2011: International Children's Peace Prize (nominee)[54]
- 2011: National Youth Peace Prize[39]
- January 2012: Anne Frank Award for Moral Courage[223][224]
- October 2012: Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's second-highest civilian bravery award[225]
- November 2012: Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker[226]
- December 2012: Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist for 2012[227]
- November 2012: Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice[a][229][230]
- December 2012: Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action[231]
- January 2013: Top Name in Annual Survey of Global English in 2012[232]
- January 2013: Simone de Beauvoir Prize[233]
- March 2013: Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525[234] (conferred on 7 December 2013 in Oxford[235])
- March 2013: Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship[236]
- March 2013: Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers[237]
- April 2013: Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer[238]
- April 2013: One of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World"[239]
- May 2013: Premi Internacional Catalunya Award of Catalonia, May 2013[240]
- June 2013: Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)[241]
- June 2013: International Campaigner of the Year, 2013 Observer Ethical Awards[242]
- August 2013: Tipperary International Peace Award for 2012, Ireland Tipperary Peace Convention[243]
- 2013: Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London[244]
- September 2013: Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International[245]
- 2013: International Children's Peace Prize[246][247]
- 2013: Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation[248]
- September 2013: Harvard Foundation's Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University[249]
- 2013: Anna Politkovskaya Award – Reach All Women in War
- 2013: Reflections of Hope Award – Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum[250]
- 2013: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – awarded by the European Parliament
- 2013: Honorary Master of Arts degree awarded by the University of Edinburgh[251]
- 2013: Pride of Britain (October)[252]
- 2013: Glamour magazine Woman of the Year[253]
- 2013: GG2 Hammer Award at GG2 Leadership Awards (November)[254]
- 2013: International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination[255]
- 2014: Awarded the World Children's Prize also known as Children's Nobel Prize[256]
- 2014: Awarded Honorary Life Membership by the PSEU (Ireland)[257]
- 2014: Skoll Global Treasure Award[258]
- 2014: Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[259]
- 2014: 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi[21]
- 2014: Philadelphia Liberty Medal[260]
- 2014: Asia Game Changer Award[261]
- 2014: One of Time Magazine "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014"[262]
- 2014: Honorary Canadian citizenship[263]
- 2015: Asteroid 316201 Malala named in her honour.[264]
- 2015: The audio version of her book I Am Malala wins Grammy Award for Best Children's Album.[265]
- 2016: Honorary President of The Students' Union of the University of Sheffield[266]
- 2016: Order of the Smile[267][268]
- 2017: Youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace[269]
- 2017: Received honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa[270]
- 2017: Ellis Island International Medal of Honor[271]
- 2017: Wonk of the Year 2017 from American University[272]
- 2017: Harper's Bazaar inducted Malala in the list of "150 of the most influential female leaders in the UK".[273][274]
- 2018: Advisor to Princess Zebunisa of Swat, Swat Relief Initiative Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey[275]
- 2018: Gleitsman Award from the Center for the Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School[276]
- 2019: For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring, on the back; Carli Lloyd chose the name of Yousafzai.[277]
- 2022: Elected World's Children's Prize Decade Child Rights Hero.[278]
