Malawi's portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) was US$30,000 in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 93.31% from US$448,681 in 2014 (23.7% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$30,000 | 2024 |
| Ten years earlier | US$448,681 | 2014 |
| Highest | US$19.83 million | 1979 |
| Lowest | −US$3.92 million | 2005 |
| Average since 2015 | US$256,865 | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | US$0 | 1977 |
The World Bank has no value for 17 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was US$16.47 million in 1978 and the biggest yearly fall was US$19.34 million in 1980. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Malawi had the 11th highest value of the 16 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Malawi | US$30,000 | 2024 |
| World | US$1.88 trillion | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | −US$459.34 million | 2025 |
| Low income | US$29.54 million | 2025 |
Closest to Malawi in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Portfolio equity includes net inflows from equity securities other than those recorded as direct investment and including shares, stocks, depository receipts (American or global), and direct purchases of shares in local stock markets by foreign investors. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Limitations: Portfolio investors typically have less of a role in the decision making of the enterprise with potentially important implications for future flows and for the volatility of the price and volume of positions. Portfolio investment differs from other investment in that it provides a direct way to access financial markets, and thus it can provide liquidity and flexibility. It is associated with financial markets and with their specialized service providers, such as exchanges, dealers, and regulators. The nature of financial derivatives as instruments through which risk is traded in its own right in financial markets sets them apart from other types of investment.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 31 values
| Year | Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 30,000 |
| 2023 | no data |
| 2022 | no data |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2020 | no data |
| 2019 | no data |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | no data |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 | 483,731 |
| 2014 |
Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) in nearby economies
- Benin — US$431,778 (2023)
- Botswana — US$3.73 million (2025)
- Burkina Faso — US$38.23 million (2024)
- Burundi — US$19.23 million (2025)
- Cameroon — US$16,540 (2021)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — US$5.02 million (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — US$31.82 million (2020)
- Côte d'Ivoire — US$26.74 million (2024)
- Eswatini — −US$13,881 (2024)
- Gabon
More economic policy & debt data for Malawi
- Services, value added (constant 2015 US$) — 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$548.16 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 364,283 (2025)
- Services, value added (annual % growth) — 2.15% (2025)
- GDP (annual % growth) — 1.89% (2025)
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Questions people ask
- What is Malawi's portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$)?
- US$30,000 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How does Malawi rank?
- 11th highest of 16 economies with data for 2024.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.PEF.TOTL.CD.WD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB) 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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