Beverages — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: Beverages — Potassium supply — Value was 49 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Beverages — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 49 mg/cap/d for beverages — potassium supply — value in 2023.
The figure is down 2.0% on the previous year and up 19.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, beverages — potassium supply — value in Malawi peaked at 51 mg/cap/d in 2021 and was at its lowest, 35 mg/cap/d, in 2019.
Malawi ranks 127th of 163 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Beverages — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 41 mg/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 39 mg/cap/d | -4.9% |
| 2013 | 41 mg/cap/d | +5.1% |
| 2014 | 44 mg/cap/d | +7.3% |
| 2015 | 43 mg/cap/d | -2.3% |
| 2016 | 43 mg/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 45 mg/cap/d | +4.7% |
| 2018 | 44 mg/cap/d | -2.2% |
| 2019 | 35 mg/cap/d | -20.5% |
| 2020 | 50 mg/cap/d | +42.9% |
| 2021 | 51 mg/cap/d | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 50 mg/cap/d | -2.0% |
| 2023 | 49 mg/cap/d | -2.0% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 49 mg/cap/d is above the median for low income countries, which is 23.5 mg/cap/d, 2.1× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 49 mg/cap/d is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 58 mg/cap/d, 84% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Beverages — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | +42.9% | 35 mg/cap/d | 50 mg/cap/d |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 41.6 mg/cap/d | 35 mg/cap/d | 45 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 50 mg/cap/d | 49 mg/cap/d | 51 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 125 Zambia 55 mg/cap/d compare
- 126 Azerbaijan 53 mg/cap/d compare
- 128 Papua New Guinea 48 mg/cap/d compare
- 128 Sri Lanka 48 mg/cap/d compare
- 130 Zimbabwe 47 mg/cap/d compare
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 beverages — potassium supply — value in Malawi?
- Beverages — potassium supply — value in Malawi was 49 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest beverages — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 51 mg/cap/d in 2021.
- What is the lowest beverages — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 35 mg/cap/d in 2019.
- How does Malawi rank for beverages — potassium supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 127th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is beverages — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.5%. 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 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.