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- Malawi: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Malawi
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world's least
- developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural, with
- about 90% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture
- accounts for 40% of GDP and 90% of export revenues. After two years
- of weak performance, economic growth improved significantly in
- 1988-91 as a result of good weather and a broadly based economic
- adjustment effort by the government. Drought cut overall output
- sharply in 1992. The economy depends on substantial inflows of
- economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual
- donor nations.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $1.9 billion
- (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: -7.7% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $200 (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 21% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $398 million; expenditures $510 million,
- including capital expenditures of $154 million (FY91 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $400 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: tobacco, tea, sugar, coffee, peanuts, wood
- products</l>
- <l> partners: US, UK, Zambia, South Africa, Germany</l>
- <l>Imports: $660 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer
- goods, transportation equipment</l>
- <l> partners: South Africa, Japan, US, UK, Zimbabwe</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $1.8 billion (December 1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate 4.0% (1990 est.); accounts for
- about 18% of GDP (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 190,000 kW capacity; 620 million kWh produced, 65 kWh
- per capita (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: agricultural processing (tea, tobacco, sugar),
- sawmilling, cement, consumer goods
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; cash crops - tobacco,
- sugarcane, cotton, tea, and corn; subsistence crops - potatoes,
- cassava, sorghum, pulses; livestock - cattle, goats
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $215
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $2,150 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Malawian kwacha (MK)=100 tambala
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Malawian kwacha (MK) per US$1 - 4.3418 (November
- 1992), 2.8033 (1991), 2.7289 (1990), 2.7595 (1989), 2.5613 (1988),
- 2.2087 (1987)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
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