Malawi Exports 2023
Complete list of Malawi's 126 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$1.13B
Total exports (2023)
#157
Global export rank
126
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Malawi exported $1.13 billion of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #157 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 126 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 58.7% of total export value. The leading export was partly or wholly stemmed or stripped, valued at $497.02 million — 44.1% of the country's export portfolio.
The two tables below list every destination country and the most-traded product categories at the HS6 (Harmonized System 6-digit) level. All values come from the CEPII BACI database, which reconciles UN Comtrade declarations to produce cleaner bilateral flows.
All export destinations
126 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | $106.02M | 9.41% |
| 2 | Germany | $101.65M | 9.02% |
| 3 | United Rep. of Tanzania | $90.81M | 8.06% |
| 4 | India | $70.10M | 6.22% |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | $61.05M | 5.42% |
| 6 | South Africa | $52.40M | 4.65% |
| 7 | China | $49.49M | 4.39% |
| 8 | USA | $45.71M | 4.06% |
| 9 | Poland | $44.58M | 3.96% |
| 10 | Zambia | $39.02M | 3.46% |
| 11 | United Kingdom | $38.86M | 3.45% |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | $32.30M | 2.87% |
| 13 | France | $31.24M | 2.77% |
| 14 | Kenya | $30.00M | 2.66% |
| 15 | Türkiye | $27.45M | 2.44% |
| 16 | Mozambique | $25.28M | 2.24% |
| 17 | Rep. of Korea | $20.62M | 1.83% |
| 18 | Rwanda | $18.83M | 1.67% |
| 19 | Japan | $17.91M | 1.59% |
| 20 | Ukraine | $15.72M | 1.40% |
| 21 | Pakistan | $12.78M | 1.13% |
| 22 | Dominican Rep. | $12.74M | 1.13% |
| 23 | Finland | $12.52M | 1.11% |
| 24 | Czechia | $10.80M | 0.96% |
| 25 | Egypt | $9.32M | 0.83% |
| 26 | Congo | $8.83M | 0.78% |
| 27 | Jordan | $8.70M | 0.77% |
| 28 | Greece | $8.52M | 0.76% |
| 29 | Indonesia | $8.04M | 0.71% |
| 30 | Serbia | $7.37M | 0.65% |
| 31 | Lithuania | $7.32M | 0.65% |
| 32 | Portugal | $6.81M | 0.60% |
| 33 | Netherlands | $5.96M | 0.53% |
| 34 | Italy | $5.37M | 0.48% |
| 35 | Philippines | $5.22M | 0.46% |
| 36 | Switzerland | $4.94M | 0.44% |
| 37 | Other Asia, nes | $4.84M | 0.43% |
| 38 | Kazakhstan | $4.73M | 0.42% |
| 39 | Denmark | $4.25M | 0.38% |
| 40 | Uganda | $4.10M | 0.36% |
| 41 | Angola | $3.95M | 0.35% |
| 42 | Viet Nam | $3.64M | 0.32% |
| 43 | Malaysia | $3.40M | 0.30% |
| 44 | Singapore | $3.28M | 0.29% |
| 45 | Romania | $2.89M | 0.26% |
| 46 | Luxembourg | $2.57M | 0.23% |
| 47 | Morocco | $2.47M | 0.22% |
| 48 | Lesotho | $2.46M | 0.22% |
| 49 | Dem. Rep. of the Congo | $2.38M | 0.21% |
| 50 | Spain | $1.76M | 0.16% |
| 51 | Canada | $1.49M | 0.13% |
| 52 | Armenia | $1.45M | 0.13% |
| 53 | Russian Federation | $1.32M | 0.12% |
| 54 | Brazil | $1.27M | 0.11% |
| 55 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $1.15M | 0.10% |
| 56 | Burundi | $1.14M | 0.10% |
| 57 | Mauritius | $1.12M | 0.10% |
| 58 | Tunisia | $1.06M | 0.09% |
| 59 | Mauritania | $1.06M | 0.09% |
| 60 | Botswana | $1.02M | 0.09% |
| 61 | Croatia | $849,071 | 0.08% |
| 62 | Georgia | $769,519 | 0.07% |
| 63 | Mexico | $721,017 | 0.06% |
| 64 | Ireland | $663,060 | 0.06% |
| 65 | Senegal | $658,207 | 0.06% |
| 66 | Bulgaria | $620,215 | 0.06% |
| 67 | Cambodia | $596,592 | 0.05% |
| 68 | Sudan | $586,175 | 0.05% |
| 69 | Paraguay | $572,776 | 0.05% |
| 70 | Hungary | $550,708 | 0.05% |
| 71 | Nigeria | $532,234 | 0.05% |
| 72 | Madagascar | $526,933 | 0.05% |
| 73 | Algeria | $518,827 | 0.05% |
| 74 | Malta | $473,517 | 0.04% |
| 75 | Austria | $468,464 | 0.04% |
| 76 | Azerbaijan | $454,630 | 0.04% |
| 77 | Israel | $395,672 | 0.04% |
| 78 | Lebanon | $359,178 | 0.03% |
| 79 | Oman | $320,341 | 0.03% |
| 80 | North Macedonia | $313,823 | 0.03% |
| 81 | Norway | $312,449 | 0.03% |
| 82 | Namibia | $266,017 | 0.02% |
| 83 | Guinea | $248,264 | 0.02% |
| 84 | Argentina | $242,661 | 0.02% |
| 85 | Australia | $175,518 | 0.02% |
| 86 | Fiji | $163,881 | 0.01% |
| 87 | Slovenia | $158,598 | 0.01% |
| 88 | Seychelles | $142,909 | 0.01% |
| 89 | Rep. of Moldova | $120,327 | 0.01% |
| 90 | Sweden | $112,814 | 0.01% |
| 91 | Brunei Darussalam | $110,570 | 0.01% |
| 92 | Saudi Arabia | $108,397 | 0.01% |
| 93 | Thailand | $56,638 | 0.01% |
| 94 | Slovakia | $52,800 | 0.00% |
| 95 | New Zealand | $52,164 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Chile | $44,741 | 0.00% |
| 97 | Ghana | $33,397 | 0.00% |
| 98 | Andorra | $26,672 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Peru | $23,438 | 0.00% |
| 100 | Sri Lanka | $22,179 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Eswatini | $20,964 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Ethiopia | $18,228 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $14,685 | 0.00% |
| 104 | Uzbekistan | $11,633 | 0.00% |
| 105 | Ecuador | $7,687 | 0.00% |
| 106 | Sierra Leone | $5,791 | 0.00% |
| 107 | Kuwait | $5,509 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Tajikistan | $4,110 | 0.00% |
| 109 | Iceland | $3,068 | 0.00% |
| 110 | Nepal | $2,705 | 0.00% |
| 111 | Honduras | $2,243 | 0.00% |
| 112 | Cyprus | $1,513 | 0.00% |
| 113 | Montenegro | $1,390 | 0.00% |
| 114 | Bahrain | $1,040 | 0.00% |
| 115 | Colombia | $922 | 0.00% |
| 116 | Costa Rica | $697 | 0.00% |
| 117 | Turkmenistan | $486 | 0.00% |
| 118 | Qatar | $467 | 0.00% |
| 119 | Eritrea | $459 | 0.00% |
| 120 | Kyrgyzstan | $385 | 0.00% |
| 121 | Côte d'Ivoire | $228 | 0.00% |
| 122 | Guinea-Bissau | $110 | 0.00% |
| 123 | Guatemala | $97 | 0.00% |
| 124 | Bangladesh | $9 | 0.00% |
| 125 | Gabon | $8 | 0.00% |
| 126 | Cameroon | $5 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 240120 | Tobacco: partly or wholly stemmed or stripped | $497.02M | 44.12% |
| 2 | 090240 | Tea, black: (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content exceeding 3kg | $88.77M | 7.88% |
| 3 | 071360 | Vegetables, leguminous: pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $57.16M | 5.07% |
| 4 | 120242 | Ground-nuts: other than seed, not roasted or otherwise cooked, shelled, whether or not broken, | $53.22M | 4.72% |
| 5 | 230400 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | $44.69M | 3.97% |
| 6 | 240110 | Tobacco, (not stemmed or stripped) | $35.51M | 3.15% |
| 7 | 170114 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, other than as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $33.88M | 3.01% |
| 8 | 071290 | Vegetables: mixtures of vegetables n.e.c. in heading no. 0712, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder but not further prepared, dried | $29.82M | 2.65% |
| 9 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $26.62M | 2.36% |
| 10 | 120740 | Oil seeds: sesamum seeds, whether or not broken | $17.00M | 1.51% |
| 11 | 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $14.89M | 1.32% |
| 12 | 071310 | Vegetables, leguminous: peas (pisum sativum), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $10.41M | 0.92% |
| 13 | 071339 | Vegetables, leguminous: n.e.c. in item no. 0713.3, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $10.08M | 0.89% |
| 14 | 080262 | Nuts, edible: macadamia, fresh or dried, shelled | $9.12M | 0.81% |
| 15 | 240130 | Tobacco refuse | $8.57M | 0.76% |
| 16 | 520100 | Cotton: not carded or combed | $7.02M | 0.62% |
| 17 | 071390 | Vegetables, leguminous: n.e.c. in heading no. 0713, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $6.84M | 0.61% |
| 18 | 441114 | Medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness exceeding 9 mm | $5.81M | 0.52% |
| 19 | 020714 | Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen | $5.68M | 0.50% |
| 20 | 080261 | Nuts, edible: macadamia, fresh or dried, in shell | $5.25M | 0.47% |
| 21 | 281121 | Carbon dioxide | $4.65M | 0.41% |
| 22 | 120110 | Soya beans: seed, whether or not broken | $4.58M | 0.41% |
| 23 | 252010 | Gypsum: anhydrite | $4.27M | 0.38% |
| 24 | 100510 | Cereals: maize (corn), seed | $4.22M | 0.37% |
| 25 | 720430 | Ferrous waste and scrap: of tinned iron or steel | $4.20M | 0.37% |
| 26 | 170199 | Sugars: sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $4.15M | 0.37% |
| 27 | 400129 | Rubber: natural (excluding latex, technically specified natural rubber and smoked sheets), in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | $4.13M | 0.37% |
| 28 | 732190 | Domestic appliances: non-electric, parts thereof, of iron or steel | $4.07M | 0.36% |
| 29 | 880211 | Helicopters: of an unladen weight not exceeding 2000kg | $3.60M | 0.32% |
| 30 | 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $3.17M | 0.28% |
| 31 | 310530 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | $3.05M | 0.27% |
| 32 | 441299 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood (other than blockboard, laminboard and battenboard, other than of bamboo, and other than plywood consisting only of sheets of wood each ply 6mm or thinner) | $3.03M | 0.27% |
| 33 | 842940 | Tamping machines and road rollers: self-propelled | $3.00M | 0.27% |
| 34 | 210690 | Food preparations: n.e.c. in item no. 2106.10 | $2.56M | 0.23% |
| 35 | 090111 | Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $2.53M | 0.22% |
| 36 | 071333 | Vegetables, leguminous: kidney beans, including white pea beans (phaseolus vulgaris), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $2.53M | 0.22% |
| 37 | 240391 | Tobacco: homogenised or reconstituted | $2.52M | 0.22% |
| 38 | 854810 | Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators: spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators | $2.41M | 0.21% |
| 39 | 080450 | Fruit, edible: guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried | $2.41M | 0.21% |
| 40 | 310210 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: nitrogenous, urea, whether or not in aqueous solution | $2.29M | 0.20% |
| 41 | 150710 | Vegetable oils: soya-bean oil and its fractions, crude, whether or not degummed, not chemically modified | $2.25M | 0.20% |
| 42 | 310520 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: containing the three fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium | $2.14M | 0.19% |
| 43 | 400122 | Rubber: technically specified natural rubber (TSNR), in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip (excluding latex and smoked sheets) | $2.03M | 0.18% |
| 44 | 630533 | Sacks and bags: of a kind used for the packing of goods, of man-made textile materials, of polyethylene or polypropylene strip or the like, not flexible intermediate bulk containers | $1.97M | 0.18% |
| 45 | 071021 | Vegetables, leguminous: peas (pisum sativum), shelled or unshelled, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen | $1.91M | 0.17% |
| 46 | 392062 | Plastics: plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), of poly(ethylene terephthalate), non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | $1.90M | 0.17% |
| 47 | 760120 | Aluminium: unwrought, alloys | $1.80M | 0.16% |
| 48 | 120810 | Flours and meals: of soya beans | $1.75M | 0.16% |
| 49 | 090421 | Spices: fruits of the genus Capsicum or Pimenta, dried, neither crushed nor ground | $1.70M | 0.15% |
| 50 | 271600 | Electrical energy | $1.64M | 0.15% |
| 51 | 740311 | Copper: refined, unwrought, cathodes and sections of cathodes | $1.57M | 0.14% |
| 52 | 391723 | Plastics: tubes, pipes and hoses thereof, rigid, of polymers of vinyl chloride | $1.43M | 0.13% |
| 53 | 090422 | Spices: fruits of the genus Capsicum or Pimenta, crushed or ground | $1.38M | 0.12% |
| 54 | 010511 | Poultry: live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not more than 185g | $1.31M | 0.12% |
| 55 | 120721 | Oil seeds: cotton seeds, seed, whether or not broken | $1.30M | 0.12% |
| 56 | 071331 | Vegetables, leguminous: beans of the species vigna mungo (l.) hepper or vigna radiata (l.) wilczek, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $1.24M | 0.11% |
| 57 | 230630 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of sunflower seed oils | $1.22M | 0.11% |
| 58 | 230990 | Dog or cat food: (not put up for retail sale), used in animal feeding | $1.18M | 0.10% |
| 59 | 540720 | Fabrics, woven: from strip or the like, of synthetic textile materials | $1.10M | 0.10% |
| 60 | 780110 | Lead: unwrought, refined | $983,453 | 0.09% |
| 61 | 392321 | Ethylene polymers: sacks and bags (including cones), for the conveyance or packing of goods | $976,379 | 0.09% |
| 62 | 100630 | Cereals: rice, semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed | $966,818 | 0.09% |
| 63 | 220710 | Undenatured ethyl alcohol: of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher | $941,629 | 0.08% |
| 64 | 100590 | Cereals: maize (corn), other than seed | $915,810 | 0.08% |
| 65 | 200559 | Vegetable preparations: beans, (not shelled), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | $909,129 | 0.08% |
| 66 | 842959 | Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders: n.e.c. in item no. 8429.50 | $864,646 | 0.08% |
| 67 | 230210 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of maize (corn), whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $861,022 | 0.08% |
| 68 | 870324 | Vehicles: with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity over 3000cc | $836,464 | 0.07% |
| 69 | 860400 | Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles: whether or not self-propelled (e.g. workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles) | $835,000 | 0.07% |
| 70 | 940550 | Lamps and light fittings: non-electric | $825,308 | 0.07% |
| 71 | 090220 | Tea, green: (not fermented), in immediate packings of a content exceeding 3kg | $823,372 | 0.07% |
| 72 | 190120 | Food preparations: mixes and doughs for the preparation of bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares | $814,796 | 0.07% |
| 73 | 410320 | Hides and skins: raw, of reptiles (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split | $809,295 | 0.07% |
| 74 | 410390 | Hides and skins: raw, of animals n.e.c. in this chapter, fresh, salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, (but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split | $771,685 | 0.07% |
| 75 | 230230 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of wheat, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $761,649 | 0.07% |
| 76 | 230240 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of other cereals, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $736,447 | 0.07% |
| 77 | 842951 | Front-end shovel loaders | $722,428 | 0.06% |
| 78 | 090121 | Coffee: roasted, not decaffeinated | $704,349 | 0.06% |
| 79 | 720410 | Ferrous waste and scrap: of cast iron | $697,919 | 0.06% |
| 80 | 090411 | Spices: pepper (of the genus piper), neither crushed nor ground | $661,969 | 0.06% |
| 81 | 170490 | Sugar confectionery: (excluding chewing gum, including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | $658,585 | 0.06% |
| 82 | 121190 | Plants and parts (including seeds and fruits) n.e.c. in heading no. 1211, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered | $654,805 | 0.06% |
| 83 | 440910 | Wood: coniferous (including unassembled strips and friezes for parquet flooring), continuously shaped along any edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed | $639,070 | 0.06% |
| 84 | 310590 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: n.e.c. in heading no. 3105 | $618,656 | 0.05% |
| 85 | 440799 | Wood: sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, of a thickness exceeding 6mm, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, n.e.c. in heading no. 4407 | $610,452 | 0.05% |
| 86 | 392119 | Plastics: plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics n.e.c. in heading no. 3921, cellular | $605,755 | 0.05% |
| 87 | 071334 | Vegetables, leguminous: bambara beans (Vigna subterranea or Voandzeia subterranea), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $587,177 | 0.05% |
| 88 | 854140 | Electrical apparatus: photosensitive, including photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) | $584,499 | 0.05% |
| 89 | 843149 | Machinery: parts of machines handling earth, minerals or ores and n.e.c. in heading no. 8431 | $584,087 | 0.05% |
| 90 | 392063 | Plastics: plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), of unsaturated polyesters, non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | $579,881 | 0.05% |
| 91 | 851539 | Welding machines and apparatus: for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals, other than fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting | $574,000 | 0.05% |
| 92 | 310260 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: nitrogenous, double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate | $572,990 | 0.05% |
| 93 | 170113 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $566,314 | 0.05% |
| 94 | 071335 | Vegetables, leguminous: cow peas (Vigna unguiculata), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $538,965 | 0.05% |
| 95 | 722860 | Steel, alloy: bars and rods n.e.c. in heading no. 7228 | $531,221 | 0.05% |
| 96 | 640299 | Footwear: n.e.c. in heading no. 6402, (other than just covering the ankle), with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics | $529,779 | 0.05% |
| 97 | 970110 | Paintings, drawings and pastels: executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading no. 4906 | $505,243 | 0.04% |
| 98 | 310559 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: containing the two fertilizing elements nitrogen and phosphorus, other than nitrates and phosphates | $500,565 | 0.04% |
| 99 | 842920 | Graders and levellers | $484,812 | 0.04% |
| 100 | 392020 | Plastics: of polymers of propylene, plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | $480,887 | 0.04% |