Malawi

Life in Malawi 2002

• Population 11.3 million (growth rate 2.2%) (Ireland: 3.8 million)
  
  
• Life Expectancy 40 years (Ireland: 76.6)
  
  
• Adult Literacy: 60.1% ( Ireland 99%)
  
  
• Income per capita: $ 615 (Ireland $29,866)
  
  
• Population living on less than $1 per day: no data
  
  
• Infant mortality rate: 117 per 1,000 live births (Ireland 6 per 1,000)
  
  
• Children under weight (age 5): 25% (Ireland: no data)
  
  
• Children under height (age 5): 49% (Ireland: no data)
  
  
• Under nourished people: 35% (Ireland no data)
  
  
• Health expenditure per person $11 (Ireland $1,569)
  
  
• People living with HIV/AIDS: 15% (Ireland 0.11%)

Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2002

GDP: 73 billion kwacha ($1.5 billion) (2000)
Growth: 2.5 percent (2000)
Inflation: 30 percent (2000)
Debt: $2.8 billion (2000)
Defence budget: $19 million (estimated) (2001)

(Source: Alertnet.org The Military Balance, 2001/2002, IISS)

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