Malawi
64 figures for Malawi, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Malawi compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $672 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $1,899 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.9% (2025)
- Unemployment 5.1% (2025)
- Inflation +32.2% (2024)
- Exports 11.3% (2024)
- Income per person $1,634 (2023)
- Household wealth 26.2 (2016)
- Poorer households 90.6% (2016)
- Wealth inequality 0.35 (2016)
- Women in paid work 63.6% (2019)
People
- Population 21.1 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.56% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.59 (2024)
- Typical age 17.6 (2023)
- Living in cities 17.6% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.517 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.925 (2023)
- People per household 5.6 (2016)
- People over 65 4.2% (2016)
- Children under 15 47.4% (2016)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.0 (2016)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 18.7 (2016)
Health
- Life expectancy 67.4 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 48.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 225 (2023)
- Health spending per person $41 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 89% (2024)
- Overweight adults 24.3% (2022)
- Stunted children 36.9% (2016)
- Overweight children 5.4% (2016)
- Homes with piped water 8.3% (2016)
- Homes with a flush toilet 2.7% (2016)
Education
- Years of schooling 5.2 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.9 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 36.6% (2023)
- Education spending 2.7% (2022)
- Teens in school 76.7% (2016)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.0869 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 1.88 million (2024)
- Forest cover 22.4% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 21.8 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 71.1% (2021)
- Average temperature 22.3 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 15.6% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 95.6% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 97.8% (2016)
Technology
- Internet users 19.0% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 59.6 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.1 (2022)
- Homes with internet 12.0% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 53.7% (2016)
Food and farming
- Hunger 21.4% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,857 (2023)
- Farmland 64.2% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 65.0% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.56 (2025)
- Human rights 0.81 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.66 (2025)
- Women in parliament 21.4% (2025)
- Military spending 1.0% (2024)
- Clean government 28.8 (2022)