Fruits and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: Fruits and their products — Potassium supply — Value was 692 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▲ Rising
Fruits and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 692 mg/cap/d for fruits and their products — potassium supply — value in 2023. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.1% on the previous year and up 106.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fruits and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi peaked at 692 mg/cap/d in 2023 and was at its lowest, 219 mg/cap/d, in 2012.
That places Malawi 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.
Fruits and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 241 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 226 mg/cap/d | -6.2% |
| 2012 | 219 mg/cap/d | -3.1% |
| 2013 | 336 mg/cap/d | +53.4% |
| 2014 | 572 mg/cap/d | +70.2% |
| 2015 | 572 mg/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 545 mg/cap/d | -4.7% |
| 2017 | 562 mg/cap/d | +3.1% |
| 2018 | 618 mg/cap/d | +10.0% |
| 2019 | 557 mg/cap/d | -9.9% |
| 2020 | 582 mg/cap/d | +4.5% |
| 2021 | 573 mg/cap/d | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 678 mg/cap/d | +18.3% |
| 2023 | 692 mg/cap/d | +2.1% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 692 mg/cap/d is above the median for low income countries, which is 125.5 mg/cap/d, 5.5× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 692 mg/cap/d is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 151 mg/cap/d, 4.6× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Fruits and their products — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +70.2% | 336 mg/cap/d | 572 mg/cap/d |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 444.8 mg/cap/d | 219 mg/cap/d | 618 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 631.25 mg/cap/d | 573 mg/cap/d | 692 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 6 Guyana 790 mg/cap/d compare
- 6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 332 mg/cap/d compare
- 7 Saudi Arabia 727 mg/cap/d compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 330 mg/cap/d compare
- 8 Samoa 726 mg/cap/d compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 301 mg/cap/d compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 225 mg/cap/d compare
- 10 Algeria 689 mg/cap/d compare
- 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 217 mg/cap/d compare
- 11 Micronesia (Federated States of) 123 mg/cap/d compare
- 11 Vanuatu 658 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 74 mg/cap/d compare
- 12 Peru 649 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 fruits and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi?
- Fruits and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi was 692 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fruits and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 692 mg/cap/d in 2023.
- What is the lowest fruits and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 219 mg/cap/d in 2012.
- How does Malawi rank for fruits and their products — potassium supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is fruits and their products — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 106.0%. 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 Fruits and their products — 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.