Malawi
Malawi in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Malawi recorded GDP per capita: 672 (2025), ranking 205 of 212 worldwide; Population: 22.22 million (2025), ranking 60 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 67.6 (2024), ranking 171 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 28.37% (2025), ranking 8 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+728%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-77%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 5 of 19 comparable series are higher and 13 are lower.
Its population of 22.22 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 14,918,276,698.3 | 2025 | +728.3% |
| GDP per capita | 671.51 | 2025 | +133.6% |
| GDP growth | 1.89% | 2025 | -75.3% |
| Population | 22,216,120 | 2025 | +512.3% |
| Population growth | 2.56% | 2025 | +7.4% |
| Urban population | 17.59% | 2025 | +335.1% |
| Inflation | 28.37% | 2025 | +140.1% |
| Life expectancy | 67.56 | 2024 | +93.1% |
| Infant mortality | 38 | 2024 | -76.8% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.22 | 2024 | +196.8% |
| GDP (PPP) | 42,194,891,550.89 | 2025 | +558.3% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 1,899.29 | 2025 | +182.8% |
| Labor participation | 62.58% | 2025 | -22.4% |
| Unemployment | 5.07% | 2025 | +3.5% |
| Electricity access | 15.6% | 2024 | +387.5% |
| Internet users | 18.96% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 22.44% | 2023 | -39.6% |
| Health spending | 6.53% | 2023 | +177.8% |
| Education spending | 2.75% | 2022 | +25.1% |