Facts about Malawi

Malawi is a small country located between Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. The country is about 900 km long and 150 km wide at its widest part.
Malawi has no ocean coastline, but the third largest lake in Africa covers almost 1/5 of Malawi. It is Lake Malawi, also called Lake Nyasa. Lake Malawi has more species of fish than any other inland body of water in the world, with a total over 500.
Highest Point:Sapitwa (3000m) at the centre of Mt Mulanje.

• Malawi is the 7th poorest country in the world.
• It has a population of approximately 12,5 million; of those 750,000 are orphans, a figure increasing by 65,000 a year.
• Over 200 people die of AIDS each day.
• Life expectancy in 1997 was 41; now it is 36.
• 48% of children in Malawi are chronically malnourished.
• In the last decade maternal deaths in childbirth have increased by 100%. This figure is the third highest in the world, behind Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.
• One in four children die before the age of five.
• 7% of the population have electricity.
• 42% of the population are illiterate.
• 3.4% of the population complete secondary education.
• 1% of the population go to University.
• Every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.