All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value was 4,214 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Malawi stood at 4,214 mg/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Malawi peaked at 4,214 mg/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 3,808 mg/cap/d, in 2011.
Malawi ranks 30th of 163 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,916 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 3,808 mg/cap/d | -2.8% |
| 2012 | 3,818 mg/cap/d | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 4,066 mg/cap/d | +6.5% |
| 2014 | 3,940 mg/cap/d | -3.1% |
| 2015 | 3,913 mg/cap/d | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 3,949 mg/cap/d | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 4,095 mg/cap/d | +3.7% |
| 2018 | 4,165 mg/cap/d | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 4,022 mg/cap/d | -3.4% |
| 2020 | 4,055 mg/cap/d | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 4,102 mg/cap/d | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 4,182 mg/cap/d | +2.0% |
| 2023 | 4,214 mg/cap/d | +0.8% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 4,214 mg/cap/d is above the median for low income countries, which is 2,617 mg/cap/d, 1.6× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 4,214 mg/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 2,971 mg/cap/d, 1.4× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 3,969 mg/cap/d | 3,808 mg/cap/d | 4,165 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,138 mg/cap/d | 4,055 mg/cap/d | 4,214 mg/cap/d | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 30.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Malawi?
- All food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value in Malawi was 4,214 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 4,214 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,808 mg/cap/d in 2011.
- How does Malawi rank for all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 30th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups (excluding beverages) — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of All food groups (excluding beverages) — Potassium supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.