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Geography

Location: Southern Africa, east of Zambia

Area:
total area: 118,480 sq km
land area: 94,080 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Pennsylvania

Land boundaries: total 2,881 km, Mozambique 1,569 km, Tanzania 475 km, Zambia 837 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 9,808,384 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 48% (female 2,361,309; male 2,384,679)
15-64 years: 49% (female 2,479,108; male 2,335,729)
65 years and over: 3% (female 139,632; male 107,927)

Population growth rate: 2.63% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 49.81 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 23.53 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 140.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 39.01 years
male: 38.28 years
female: 39.76 years

Total fertility rate: 7.36 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European

Religions: Protestant 55%, Roman Catholic 20%, Muslim 20%, traditional indigenous beliefs

Languages: English (official), Chichewa (official), other languages important regionally

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1987)
total population: 48%
male: 65%
female: 34%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Malawi
conventional short form: Malawi

Type: multiparty democracy following a referendum on 14 June 1993; formerlya one-party republic

Capital: Lilongwe

Independence: 6 July 1964 (from UK)

Constitution: 6 July 1966; republished as amended January 1974


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $7.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 9.3%

National product per capita: $750

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 190,000 kW
production: 820 million kWh
consumption per capita: 77 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.