Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Malawi
Malawi: Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply was 1,240 kcal/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Malawi is 1,240 kcal/cap/d, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 14 years on record.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 13.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Malawi peaked at 1,507 kcal/cap/d in 2012 and was at its lowest, 1,240 kcal/cap/d, in 2023.
Malawi ranks 45th of 164 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Cereals - Excluding Beer — Food supply 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 | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 1,425 kcal/cap/d | -5.5% |
| 2014 | 1,312 kcal/cap/d | -8.0% |
| 2015 | 1,369 kcal/cap/d | +4.4% |
| 2016 | 1,331 kcal/cap/d | -2.8% |
| 2017 | 1,285 kcal/cap/d | -3.4% |
| 2018 | 1,277 kcal/cap/d | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,370 kcal/cap/d | +7.3% |
| 2020 | 1,334 kcal/cap/d | -2.6% |
| 2021 | 1,344 kcal/cap/d | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 1,247 kcal/cap/d | -7.2% |
| 2023 | 1,240 kcal/cap/d | -0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,381 kcal/cap/d | 1,277 kcal/cap/d | 1,507 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,291 kcal/cap/d | 1,240 kcal/cap/d | 1,344 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)
- 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 cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Malawi?
- Cereals - excluding beer — food supply in Malawi was 1,240 kcal/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 1,507 kcal/cap/d in 2012.
- What is the lowest cereals - excluding beer — food supply recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,240 kcal/cap/d in 2023.
- How does Malawi rank for cereals - excluding beer — food supply?
- Malawi ranks 45th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cereals - excluding beer — food supply 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 - Excluding Beer — Food supply (kcal/capita/day). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet 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 caput 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. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.