Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value was 1,239 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Malawi stood at 1,239 kcal/cap/d. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 13.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Malawi peaked at 1,507 kcal/cap/d in 2012 and was at its lowest, 1,239 kcal/cap/d, in 2023.
That places Malawi 41st out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals and their products — Energy supply — Value in Malawi, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,459 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,477 kcal/cap/d | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 1,507 kcal/cap/d | +2.0% |
| 2013 | 1,424 kcal/cap/d | -5.5% |
| 2014 | 1,311 kcal/cap/d | -7.9% |
| 2015 | 1,368 kcal/cap/d | +4.3% |
| 2016 | 1,330 kcal/cap/d | -2.8% |
| 2017 | 1,284 kcal/cap/d | -3.5% |
| 2018 | 1,276 kcal/cap/d | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,369 kcal/cap/d | +7.3% |
| 2020 | 1,332 kcal/cap/d | -2.7% |
| 2021 | 1,343 kcal/cap/d | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 1,246 kcal/cap/d | -7.2% |
| 2023 | 1,239 kcal/cap/d | -0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,380 kcal/cap/d | 1,276 kcal/cap/d | 1,507 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,290 kcal/cap/d | 1,239 kcal/cap/d | 1,343 kcal/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)
- 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)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Malawi?
- Cereals and their products — energy supply — value in Malawi was 1,239 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals and their products — energy supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 1,507 kcal/cap/d in 2012.
- What is the lowest cereals and their products — energy supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,239 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Malawi rank for cereals and their products — energy supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 41st out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals and their products — energy supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals and their products — Energy 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.