Malawi's agriculture share rose from 26.1 % in 1996 to 30.0 % in 2025.
Malawi · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
8th of 182 · 7th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 71.6 % in 1996 to 65.0 % in 2025.
Malawi's resource rents fell from 9.1 % in 1992 to 4.2 % in 2021.
Malawi's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 43.2 % in 1994 to 64.2 % in 2023.
Malawi's arable land (% of land area) rose from 22.3 % in 1994 to 42.4 % in 2023.
Malawi's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −4.5 %127th of 179
- Food production indexup +3.2 pts9th of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.4 pts17th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +14.6 pts1st of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −27.1 %62nd of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +268.4 %96th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts86th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts19th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts62nd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts131st of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.7 pts142nd of 165