Sweets and sugars — Carbohydrate (available) supply — Value in Malawi
Malawi: Sweets and sugars — Carbohydrate (available) supply — Value was 24.9 g/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweets and sugars — Carbohydrate (available) supply — Value in Malawi, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in g/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value in Malawi stood at 24.9 g/cap/d.
That represents a change of down 8.1% on the previous year and down 8.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value in Malawi peaked at 29.5 g/cap/d in 2015 and was at its lowest, 12 g/cap/d, in 2019.
That places Malawi 162nd out of 177 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 25.41 g/cap/d | 12 g/cap/d | 29.5 g/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 23.5 g/cap/d | 16.5 g/cap/d | 27.1 g/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 160 Zambia 26.4 g/cap/d compare
- 161 United Republic of Tanzania 25.1 g/cap/d compare
- 163 China 23.4 g/cap/d compare
- 164 Papua New Guinea 23 g/cap/d compare
- 165 Angola 22.8 g/cap/d compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- 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)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value in Malawi?
- Sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value in Malawi was 24.9 g/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 29.5 g/cap/d in 2015.
- What is the lowest sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 12 g/cap/d in 2019.
- How does Malawi rank for sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value?
- Malawi ranks 162nd out of 177 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweets and sugars — carbohydrate (available) supply — value rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.1%. 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 Sweets and sugars — Carbohydrate (available) 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.