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Malawi — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Malawi, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.89%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -75.3% since 1961
GDP growth for Malawi was 1.89% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 16.73% in 1995. The lowest was -10.24% in 1994 (about -5.4× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.16% per year.
Malawi ranks 148 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 70%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Malawi sits below it. It peaked in 1995 and has fallen 89% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 33%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.89%
First (1961)
7.64%
Change
-75.3%
Highest
16.73%
in 1995
Lowest
-10.24%
in 1994
Average
4.12%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.16%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.89% |
| 2024 | 1.67% |
| 2023 | 1.95% |
| 2022 | 0.92% |
| 2021 | 4.56% |
| 2020 | 0.79% |
| 2019 | 5.72% |
| 2018 | 4.35% |
| 2017 | 4% |
| 2016 | 2.5% |
| 2015 | 2.8% |
| 2014 | 5.63% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.