Malawi
General information
Capital: Lilongwe
Currency unit: Malawi kwacha
Official language: English, Nyanja
Area: 94,280 km²
Population in million: 18,143,300.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 389
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 1,311
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 77.3
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.6 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 35.3 %
Life expectancy at birth: 63.3 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 66 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 7,064,970,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 26.1
Industry value added of GDP: 14.4
Services value added of GDP: 4.0
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 869,254.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 1,441,270.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Radioactive chemical elements (6.39 %)
Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans and waistcoats (0.63 %)
Women's blouses and shirts (0.56 %)
Articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics (0.50 %)
Fibreboard of wood (0.28 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Unmanufactured tobacco (52.76 %)
Cane or beet sugar (5.72 %)
Tea (5.61 %)
Dried leguminous vegetables (4.21 %)
Cotton, not carded or combed (2.93 %)
Macroeconomic competitiveness
| Malawi | ||
|---|---|---|
| Macroeconomic competitiveness | 25 | |
| Effective PPP conversion factor ratio (net of productivity) Malawi: 25 | 25 |