Malawi
Malawi in numbers
39 measures of Malawi from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$128M in 2025
- Military spending per person$7 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel15,000 people in 2020
- National power0.07% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.2% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2000
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Malawi with…
- Malawi vs Nigeria
- Malawi vs Ethiopia
- Malawi vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Malawi vs Tanzania
- Malawi vs South Africa
- Malawi vs Kenya
- Malawi vs Sudan
- Malawi vs Uganda
- Malawi vs Angola
- Malawi vs Mozambique
- Malawi vs Ghana
- Malawi vs Madagascar
- Malawi vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Malawi vs Cameroon
- Malawi vs Niger
- Malawi vs Mali
- Malawi vs Burkina Faso
- Malawi vs Zambia
- Malawi vs Chad
- Malawi vs Somalia
- Malawi vs Senegal
- Malawi vs Zimbabwe
- Malawi vs Guinea
- Malawi vs Benin
- Malawi vs Rwanda
- Malawi vs Burundi
- Malawi vs South Sudan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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