Malawi World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Malawi	Rank
GDP	$7.1B	150
GDP growth, 1 year	3.2%	93
GDP growth, 5-years average	3.6%	63
Population	18.6M	61
GDP per capita	$389	195
GDP per capita growth	0.8%	142
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	217.52	32
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.3	172
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.2k	193
GNI, Atlas method	$6.5B	147
GNI per capita	$360	189
GNI, PPP adjusted	$23.7B	138
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.3k	181

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Malawi	Rank
Income Tax Rate	30%	82
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	124
Inflation, consumer prices	9.2%	168
Inflation, GDP deflator	8.6%	158
Unemployment	5.4%	94
Economic Freedom Index	52.8	163
Personal Freedom Index	7.18	91
Human Freedom Index	6.68	110
Property Rights Index	43.1	139
Judical Effectiveness Index	42.1	101
Business Freedom Index	41.9	165
Fiscal Health Index	23.6	151
Labor Freedom Index	62.8	68
Investment Freedom Index	50	127
Financial Freedom Index	50	105
Trade Freedom Index	75.4	94
Monetary Freedom Index	69.1	151
Government Spending Index	71.7	86
Tax Burden Index	79	84
Government Integrity Index	24.8	148
Corruption Perceptions Index	32	139
Life expectancy at birth, years	63.3	169
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	3.7	40
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	31	187
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.7	67
International tourism, number of arrivals	871k	121

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Malawi	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	61.3%	64
External debt stocks, % of GNI	32.2%	87
External debt stocks	$2.3B	93
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	3%	96
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	5.7%	91
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-16.7%	155
Gross savings, % of GDP	13.2%	141
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	13.4%	162
Total reserves including gold	$759.6M	135
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$102M	146

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Malawi	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	29.2%	125
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	36.2%	121
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$1.4B	124
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	18.1%	108
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$973.7M	22
Personal remittances received	$181.6M	132
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	14.4%	162
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	26.1%	20
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$3.2M	126
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	-
Expense, % of GDP	20.9%	95
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	30.7%	94