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Malawi
Trade (% of GDP)

Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Global rank#119out of 138 countries
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Historical trend

45.343.842.340.939.4201720212025Malawi · 2025: 39.40%Malawi

Analytical takeaways

  • Malawi records 39.40% for Trade (% of GDP) in 2025, ranking #119 globally out of 138 countries.
  • Trade (% of GDP) declined from 45.30% in 2017 to 39.40% in 2025, a decrease of 5.90%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

Comparison

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