Malawi's hdi rose from 0.3 in 1994 to 0.5 in 2023.
Malawi · Quality of life
Human development, happiness, safety, access and environment.
14 indicators · 13 with data
Malawi's life satisfaction fell from 4.6 in 2011 to 3.3 in 2025.
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- Life expectancyup +0.2 yrs171st of 217
- Healthy life expectancy at birthdown −1.0 yrs159th of 185
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- Gini indexdown −13.9 %58th of 78*
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- Air pollution (PM2.5)down −17.1 %97th of 200
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- Homicide ratedown −21.0 %49th of 147*
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.3 pts138th of 148
- Access to electricity (% of population)unchanged +0.0 pts213th of 215
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- Internet usersup +1.0 pts173rd of 182
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- Expected years of schoolingunchanged +0.0 yrs173rd of 195
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- Unemploymentup +0.0 pts92nd of 185
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- Women in parliamentup +0.7 pts115th of 184
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These indicators exist in the registry but no source reports a value for Malawi.
- Housing cost overburden rateNo data