Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Malawi | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2011 - 2022

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESMalawiWorldExportsValue (US$)1,425,289,318.001,182,865,708.001,207,984,154.001,341,897,681.001,080,100,821.001,022,365,881.37838,818,410.71837,537,692.85899,120,983.80771,478,822.441,009,460,778.53899,734,889.98
Value Growth, YoY (%)33.67-17.002.1211.08-19.50-5.34-17.95-0.157.35-14.1930.84-10.86
ImportsValue (US$)2,427,696,418.002,330,367,872.002,844,625,505.002,774,368,038.002,311,614,378.002,253,991,201.772,551,204,601.202,686,491,149.332,892,158,547.592,678,347,112.863,073,235,408.551,586,270,415.49
Value Growth, YoY (%)11.71-4.0022.06-2.46-16.67-2.4913.185.307.65-7.3914.74-48.38

The value of merchandise exports from Malawi totalled $ 899 million in 2022. Overall commodity exports from Malawi decreased by 10.8% compared to 2021. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 109 million (the value of merchandise exports from Malawi amounted to $1 billion in 2021)

Malawi's exports 2022 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Malawi in 2022:

  • Belgium with a share of 15.9% (143 million US$)
  • Tanzania with a share of 9.42% (84 million US$)
  • Kenya with a share of 6.88% (61 million US$)
  • South Africa with a share of 6.44% (58 million US$)
  • Zimbabwe with a share of 5.32% (47 million US$)
  • USA with a share of 5.25% (47 million US$)
  • Zambia with a share of 4.36% (39 million US$)
  • India with a share of 4.03% (36 million US$)
  • United Kingdom with a share of 3.64% (32 million US$)
  • Germany with a share of 3.23% (29 million US$)

Exports structure from Malawi in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 45% (409 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
  • 13.2% (119 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  • 8.93% (80 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
  • 6.08% (54 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
  • 3.36% (30 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
  • 3.01% (27 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  • 2.86% (25 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 2.53% (22 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
  • 1.96% (17.6 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
  • 1.34% (12.1 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

What did Malawi export in 2022?

Malawi's Top Exports in 2022:

  • 45% ($407 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
  • 8.99% ($80 million): 1202 - Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken.
  • 8.47% ($76 million): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
  • 5.99% ($53 million): 0713 - Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split
  • 2.83% ($25 million): 2304 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soyabean oil
  • 2.78% ($25 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
  • 2.73% ($24 million): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
  • 2.51% ($22 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
  • 2.14% ($19.2 million): 8478 - Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
  • 1.54% ($13.9 million): 3105 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg

The value of merchandise imports to Malawi totalled $ 1.58 billion in 2022. Overall commodity imports to Malawi decreased by 48% compared to 2021. Merchandise imports decreased by $ 1.48 billion (the value of merchandise imports to Malawi was equal to $3.07 billion in 2021)

Malawi's imports 2022 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Malawi in 2022:

  • China with a share of 16.4% (261 million US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 14% (222 million US$)
  • South Africa with a share of 14% (222 million US$)
  • Kuwait with a share of 7.41% (117 million US$)
  • India with a share of 5.5% (87 million US$)
  • Japan with a share of 3.23% (51 million US$)
  • Malaysia with a share of 2.76% (43 million US$)
  • Zambia with a share of 2.63% (41 million US$)
  • USA with a share of 2.35% (37 million US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 2.29% (36 million US$)

Imports structure to Malawi in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 17.2% (274 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 14.3% (228 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
  • 7.94% (126 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 5.87% (93 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 4.92% (78 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 4.54% (72 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 3.97% (63 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 3.5% (55 million US$): 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
  • 3.33% (52 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
  • 3.29% (52 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

What did Malawi import in 2022?

Malawi's Top Imports in 2022:

  • 16.8% ($267 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
  • 8.02% ($127 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
  • 5.36% ($85 million): 3105 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg
  • 2.62% ($41 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
  • 2.34% ($37 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
  • 2.22% ($35 million): 6309 - Worn clothing and other worn articles
  • 1.98% ($31 million): 3822 - Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading 30.02 or 30.06; certified reference materials
  • 1.9% ($30 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
  • 1.77% ($28 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
  • 1.7% ($27 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers

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Malawi | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2011 - 2022