| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 549 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Malawi as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 0of 2 | Ports catalogued for Malawi with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Malawi's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Malawi's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 170 more tracked partners not shown above.
Every one of Malawi's 110 real trading partners reported for 2024 under UN Comtrade (MW) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Malawi's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Malawi against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (2006–2012) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 1,064 | 2012 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 375 | 2012 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 689 | 2012 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 646 | 2012 | |
| Firm entry rate | 64.8% | 2012 | |
| Firm exit rate | 63.3% | 2012 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.087 | 2012 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 655 | 2012 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $1.1M | 2012 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $8.0K | 2012 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 1.7 | 2013 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 1.0 | 2013 |
The 2012 mean is 135x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Malawi's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Vehicles other than railway HS 87 | 281 |
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 258 |
| Wood and articles of wood HS 44 | 184 |
| Other made-up textile articles HS 63 | 182 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 173 |
| Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94 | 154 |
| Printed books, newspapers HS 49 | 140 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 108 |
Top manufacturing industries among Malawi's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2012 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
| Manufacturing industry (ISIC) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Motor vehicles ISIC 341 | 174 |
| Furniture ISIC 361 | 147 |
| Special purpose machinery ISIC 292 | 147 |
| Publishing ISIC 221 | 141 |
| Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289 | 132 |
| Wood, cork, straw and plaiting products ISIC 202 | 109 |
| Other manufacturing ISIC 369 | 101 |
| Office, accounting and computing machinery ISIC 300 | 101 |