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| Introduction - Malawi: | | Location - Malawi: | | People - Malawi: | | Government - Malawi: | | Economy - Malawi: | Economy overview | Landlocked Malawi ranks among the worlds least developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural, with about 85% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture accounts for about one-third of GDP and four-fifths of export revenues. The performance of the tobacco sector is key to short-term growth as tobacco accounts for more than half of exports. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In 2006, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The government faces many challenges, including developing a market economy, improving educational facilities, facing up to environmental problems, dealing with the rapidly growing problem of HIV/AIDS, and satisfying foreign donors that fiscal discipline is being tightened. In 2005, President MUTHARIKA championed an anticorruption campaign. Since 2005 President MUTHARIKAS government has exhibited improved financial discipline under the guidance of Finance Minister Goodall GONDWE. | | Gdp purchasing power parity | $8.272 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp official exchange rate | $2.202 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp real growth rate | 8.5% (2006 est.) | | Gdp per capita ppp | $600 (2006 est.) | | Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 35.4%
industry: 17.6%
services: 47% (2006 est.) | | Labor force | 4.5 million (2001 est.) | | Labor force by occupation | agriculture: 90%
industry and services: 10% (2003 est.) | | Unemployment rate | NA% | | Population below poverty line | 53% (2004) | | Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA% | | Distribution of family income gini index | 50.3 (1997) | | Inflation rate consumer prices | 13.9% (2006) | | Investment gross fixed | 9.2% of GDP (2006 est.) | | Budget | revenues: $818.4 million
expenditures: $895.9 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.) | | Public debt | 68.4% of GDP (2006 est.) | | Agriculture products | tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, cassava (tapioca), sorghum, pulses, groundnuts, Macadamia nuts; cattle, goats | | Industries | tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods | | Industrial production growth rate | 6.4% (2006 est.) | | Electricity production | 1.293 billion kWh (2004) | | Electricity consumption | 1.202 billion kWh (2004) | | Electricity exports | 0 kWh (2004) | | Electricity imports | 0 kWh (2004) | | Oil production | 0 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil consumption | 5,500 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil exports | NA bbl/day | | Oil imports | NA bbl/day | | Oil proved reserves | 0 bbl | | Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Current account balance | -$186 million (2006 est.) | | Exports | $513.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.) | | Exports commodities | tobacco 53%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products, apparel | | Exports partners | South Africa 12.9%, Germany 9.9%, Egypt 9.8%, US 9.7%, Mozambique 5.5%, Russia 5.5%, Netherlands 4.5% (2006) | | Imports | $767.9 million f.o.b. (2006 est.) | | Imports commodities | food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment | | Imports partners | South Africa 29.3%, Zambia 9.3%, Zimbabwe 7.8%, Mozambique 7.2%, India 6.9%, US 5.4%, Tanzania 5% (2006) | | Reserves of foreign exchange and gold | $175.5 million (2006 est.) | | Debt external | $982.4 million (2006 est.) | | Economic aid recipient | $401.5 million (2001) | | Currency code | Malawian kwacha (MWK) | | Exchange rates | Malawian kwachas per US dollar - 135.96 (2006), 108.894 (2005), 108.898 (2004), 97.433 (2003), 76.687 (2002) | |
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