Names: conventional long form: Republic of Malawi conventional short form: Malawi local long form: Dziko la Malawi local short form: Malawi former: British Central African Protectorate, Nyasaland Protectorate, Nyasaland

Capital City: Lilongwe

Population: 13,013,926 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $600 (2006 est.)

Currency: Malawian kwacha (MWK)

Languages: Chichewa 57.2% (official), Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6% (1998 census)

Total Area: total: 118,480 sq km land: 94,080 sq km water: 24,400 sq km slightly smaller than Pennsylvania

Region: Africa

Industries: tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods

Agriculture: tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, cassava (tapioca), sorghum, pulses, groundnuts, Macadamia nuts; cattle, goats

Resources: limestone, arable land, hydropower, unexploited deposits of uranium, coal, and bauxite

Labor Force: 4.5 million (2001 est.)
agriculture: 90% industry and services: 10% (2003 est.)

Exports: $513.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
tobacco 60%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products, apparel

Imports: $767.9 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment

Overview: Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world's least developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural, with about 90% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture accounted for nearly 36% of GDP and 80% of export revenues in 2005. The performance of the tobacco sector is key to short-term growth as tobacco accounts for over 60% of exports. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In late 2000, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The government faces strong challenges, including developing a market economy, improving educational facilities, facing up to environmental problems, dealing with the rapidly growing problem of HIV/AIDS, and satisfying foreign donors that fiscal discipline is being tightened. In 2005, President MUTHARIKA championed an anticorruption campaign. Malawi's recent fiscal policy performance has been very strong, but a serious drought in 2005 and 2006 heightened pressure on the government to increase spending.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $21,665 in goods to Malawi. This ranks Malawi 87^th among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Malawi decreased from the previous year by $1,079,250 a change of -98.03%. State exports to Malawi have increased over the last 5 years by $10,128 a change of 87.79%. Missouri exports account for %.00 of all 2007 US exports to Malawi.