Healthy diet unaffordable in Malawi

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in Malawi
Creator: FAOSTAT
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In Malawi, 92.7% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.

People unable to afford a healthy diet % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT

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Malawi, 2025 92.7%e % of the population

Change from 2024 +0.6percentage points 2024: 92.1%

World, 2025 32.7%e Official aggregate

Position in 2025 2nd of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in Malawi over time

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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

People unable to afford a healthy diet (% of the population), 2017 to 2025
Period	Malawi	World
2025	92.7%e (Estimated value)	32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024	92.1%e (Estimated value)	34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023	91.1%e (Estimated value)	35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022	89.8%e (Estimated value)	36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021	88.9%e (Estimated value)	37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020	88.9%e (Estimated value)	39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019	87.8%e (Estimated value)	38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018	86.4%e (Estimated value)	39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017	85.5%e (Estimated value)	41.0%e (Estimated value)

Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of +0.6 percentage points from 92.1% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 85.5%, the figure has changed by +7.2 percentage points.
Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Malawi has the 2nd highest value.
The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

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All statistics for Malawi

Cost of a healthy diet Int$5.01e per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Pesticide use 0.31e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 22.4e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 30.0% 2025 · World Bank Cereal yield 1,878 kg per hectare 2024 · World Bank Agricultural land 65.0% 2024 · World Bank

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Original producer: FAOSTAT
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
Dataset or series code: CAHD · dataset details · view at source
Selection: Item Code=7005 Element Code=6121
Observation period: 2017 to 2025 for Malawi
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0

How Malawi compares in 2025 Neighbouring positions among 145 countries with a value for 2025.

1 South Sudan 93.9%e (Estimated value)
2 Malawi 92.7%e (Estimated value)
3 Mozambique 91.3%e (Estimated value)
4 Burundi 90.9%e (Estimated value)
5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 90.1%e (Estimated value)
6 Haiti 88.9%e (Estimated value)
7 Central African Republic 87.6%e (Estimated value)

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What this measures

Share of the population whose income, after setting aside an amount for other basic needs, is too low to buy the cheapest healthy diet available locally.

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