1. PopulationMalawi

   Malawi: the IMF counts 1.62M more people than the UN

   UNIMF

   How many people lived in Malawi in 2023? The IMF (April 2026) says 22.7M, the UN estimate says 21.1M. Both are official; the gap is 8% of the UN figure. Why the counts differ, these data do not say.

   Source: IMF World Economic Outlook; UN World Population Prospects 2024Open on the chart →

More findings

• Malawi: 428k natives live abroad, 2.3 times as many as the foreign-born living there
• Goals to lower fertility in Africa and South Asia: 2 of 9 came true on time. Pakistan expected 2.6 by 2020 and had 3.77
• Malawi: the economy “grew” 38% in six months, retroactively
• DR Congo and Malawi: about 6.65 children per woman each in 1990, 6.05 and 3.65 in 2023
• Malawi: women live longer than all 12 UN projections expected — by 10.3 years (median)
• Malawi: the budget came out worse than the IMF forecast in 14 years out of 15

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