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🇲🇼 Malawi
Republic of Malawi
MWI MW MK Malawian kwacha (MWK)
Every statistic we track for Malawi — 133 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$1,797
64.8 yrs
3.28
0.46
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All indicators
📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 50.4% | #109/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 50.4% | #109/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 1.7 | #151/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -15.4% | #176/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 4.2% | #136/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 48.9% | #58/97 | 2024 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 5.5 | #139/163 | 2022 |
| Economy Seen as Good (Afrobarometer) | 9.2% | #36/39 | 2023 |
| Extreme Poverty | 0% | #146/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -10.5% | #179/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 18.2 | #136/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 44.5 | #137/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 733 | #184/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 1,190 | #159/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 1,797 | #186/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 2.9% | #83/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 74.5% | #44/185 | 2026 |
| Income per Person | 1,035 | #174/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 24.4% | #7/191 | 2026 |
| Labour Productivity (GDP per hour) (PWT) | 3.3 | #123/130 | 2023 |
| Made a Digital Payment | 22.3% | #110/144 | 2017 |
| Mobile Money Account | 47.4% | #24/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 2.2% | #129/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #140/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 26,465,351,444 | #133/165 | 2022 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.6 | #41/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #18/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 18.4 | #215/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 16.4 | #66/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 24.8 | #55/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 241 | #64/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 551 | #116/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 17.3% | #211/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 15.6% | #212/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 11.1% | #38/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 19% | #173/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 59.7 | #190/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 14.4% | #71/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 5.4 | #134/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #180/203 | 2024 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 35.1 | #157/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 95.6% | #14/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 61 | #68/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 45.6% | #27/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2 | #91/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 20 | #23/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 20.2 | #38/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 46.8% | #18/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 94.5% | #11/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 36.2% | #100/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.3 | #137/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 57.7% | #10/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 11.3% | #35/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.4 | #44/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 45.5 | #113/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.6 | #112/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 85.9% | #10/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 3.3 | #145/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #107/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 0.9 | #142/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #70/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.3 | #132/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #57/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.3 | #144/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #172/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 93.1% | #9/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 73.5% | #9/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.1% | #120/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 94% | #11/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 91.7% | #17/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 63.9% | #19/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 10.6% | #36/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 20.1% | #24/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 65.1% | #12/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.5 | #31/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 61.3% | #119/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 58.7% | #96/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.7 | #9/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 69.1% | #16/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.