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Malawi: Food imports

11.21percent · 2025-15.4% since 2015

Food comprises the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. Annual figures for Malawi from 1966 to 2025.

19792025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202511.215
202411.796
20238.943
20229.577
202110.417
202014.709
201910.985
201810.329
201712.541
201617.561
201513.261
201411.32
201311.428
20126.399
201113.034
201014.403
200912.666
200813.075
200711.106
200615.15
200518.235
200417.37
200317.36
200223.516
200111.635
20009.838
199912.164
199513.926
199416.695
19918.159
19908.678
19877.632
19866.603
19857.645
19847.562
19838.193
19827.595
198110.95
19807.512
19796.366
19785.105
19778.118
197610.39
19759.405
197412.252
197314.327
197212.045
197112.304
197018.114
196912.294
196813.601
196716.912
196619.424

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by United Nations, World Integrated Trade Solution, World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Food imports. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-food-imports (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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