All food groups — Selenium supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: All food groups — Selenium supply — Value was 3 μg/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
All food groups — Selenium supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in μg/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for all food groups — selenium supply — value in Malawi is 3 μg/cap/d, measured in 2023.
The figure is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, all food groups — selenium supply — value in Malawi peaked at 4 μg/cap/d in 2016 and was at its lowest, 2 μg/cap/d, in 2011.
That places Malawi 140th out of 177 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 3.2 μg/cap/d | 2 μg/cap/d | 4 μg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 3 μg/cap/d | 3 μg/cap/d | 3 μg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 140 Armenia 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Bhutan 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Eswatini 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Hungary 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Jordan 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Lebanon 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Liberia 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Madagascar 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Paraguay 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 Türkiye 3 μg/cap/d compare
- 140 United Republic of Tanzania 3 μg/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is all food groups — selenium supply — value in Malawi?
- All food groups — selenium supply — value in Malawi was 3 μg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest all food groups — selenium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 4 μg/cap/d in 2016.
- What is the lowest all food groups — selenium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 2 μg/cap/d in 2011.
- How does Malawi rank for all food groups — selenium supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 140th out of 177 countries with data for 2023.
- Is all food groups — selenium supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. 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 — Selenium 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.