Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value was 1,118 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Roots, tubers, plantains 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 1,118 mg/cap/d for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in 2023.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 31.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi peaked at 1,655 mg/cap/d in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1,071 mg/cap/d, in 2019.
Malawi ranks 22nd of 163 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — Potassium supply — Value in Malawi, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,655 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 1,550 mg/cap/d | -6.3% |
| 2012 | 1,566 mg/cap/d | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 1,624 mg/cap/d | +3.7% |
| 2014 | 1,201 mg/cap/d | -26.0% |
| 2015 | 1,146 mg/cap/d | -4.6% |
| 2016 | 1,126 mg/cap/d | -1.7% |
| 2017 | 1,170 mg/cap/d | +3.9% |
| 2018 | 1,177 mg/cap/d | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,071 mg/cap/d | -9.0% |
| 2020 | 1,072 mg/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 1,127 mg/cap/d | +5.1% |
| 2022 | 1,119 mg/cap/d | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 1,118 mg/cap/d | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,329 mg/cap/d | 1,071 mg/cap/d | 1,655 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,109 mg/cap/d | 1,072 mg/cap/d | 1,127 mg/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 roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi?
- Roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value in Malawi was 1,118 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 1,655 mg/cap/d in 2010.
- What is the lowest roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,071 mg/cap/d in 2019.
- How does Malawi rank for roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 22nd out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is roots, tubers, plantains and their products — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.2%. 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 Roots, tubers, plantains 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.