Malawi: Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Malawi's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2020 (from 0.32% to 0.32%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.17 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.05 percentage points in 1987 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.64 percentage points in 1990. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.07 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 37% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to Malawi in the 2021 ranking

• Kuwait — 3rd of 6: 4.52%
• Kosovo — 4th of 6: 2.43%
• West Bank and Gaza — 5th of 6: 2.14%

What this measures

Machinery and transport equipment manufacturing includes industries classified in ISIC (Rev. 3) divisions 29-35. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of value added in manufacturing which is the contribution to the economy by the manufacturing sector (ISIC Rev. 3 major division D).

Limitations: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."

All 55 values

Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 16.46% (2023)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 1.61% (2022)
• Ethiopia — 5.45% (2015)
• Ghana — 0.79% (2015)
• Kenya — 5.59% (2023)
• Madagascar — 0.89% (2024)
• Mauritius — 5.6% (2023)
• Senegal — 2.05% (2023)
• South Africa

More economic policy & debt data for Malawi

• Services, value added (constant 2015 US$) — US$6.68 billion (2025)
• Services, value added (constant LCU) — 4.34 trillion (2025)
• Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices (constant 2015 US$) — US$11.42 billion (2025)
• Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices (constant LCU) — 7.6 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$12.18 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 8.09 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$548.16 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 364,283 (2025)
• Services, value added (annual % growth) — 2.15% (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 1.89% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Malawi's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)?

0.32% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1964?

It is up 0.19 percentage points from 0.13% in 1964. The highest value was 7.04% in 1989 and the lowest -0.73% in 2003.

Is the latest change in machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for Malawi?

In 2021, Malawi's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2020 (from 0.32% to 0.32%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.17 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.MNF.MTRN.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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