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Malawi

NormalScore 1Open the map

Level, last 60 days

  • Deaths 30 d

    0

    UCDP up to 2026-08-31

  • Per million 90 d

    —

    last 90 days

  • Civilians

    —

    last 90 days

  • Incidents 30 d

    0

  • Population

    22.2 M

    World Bank

  • Plants near violence

    0 / 0

    near violence / total; 0 nuclear

Why this level1

  • +11.3 million people in crisis-level food insecurity or worse (IPC 3+)FEWS NET

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Every monitored signal

The last 60 days, each on its own scale.

  • Internet outage alerts, 24 h

    3

  • People in food crisis (IPC 3+)

    1 250 000

  • Refugees who fled

    2 330

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Deaths in organised violence, per week

Malawi, UCDP best estimates. The red bar is the latest week.

The latest week may be incomplete.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Who the violence is between

Deaths by kind of violence, last 90 days of data.

  • State-based conflict · 0%
  • Non-state conflict · 0%
  • Against civilians · 0%

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Food, displacement, sanctions

People in food crisis (IPC 3+)
—
2026-08
Share in food crisis
—
2026-08
Undernourishment
21.4%
2023
Refugees who fled
2,330
2025
Refugees hosted
60,492
2025
Internally displaced
—
2025
Sanctions designations
2
2026-09-29
GDP per person
$672
2025

FEWS NET · World Bank / FAO · UNHCR · OpenSanctions

People in crisis-level food insecurity

IPC Phase 3 or worse, month by month (FEWS NET current-situation estimates, midpoint of the published range).

FEWS NET — IPC-compatible analysis

Latest incidents of organised violence0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Conflicts, 90 days0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Natural hazards, 30 days0

None in the last 30 days.

GDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Warnings and notices

UK FCDO: Malawi: No specific restriction

No severe weather warning in force.

UK FCDO · WMO · WHO · Copernicus EMS

Next 7 days in Lilongwe

Day°CRainGustsWatch
Tue, Sep 2921…300.1 mm46 km/h
Wed, Sep 3019…295.6 mm44 km/h
Thu, Oct 118…268.5 mm39 km/hthunderstorm
Fri, Oct 217…258.8 mm42 km/h
Sat, Oct 317…263.3 mm38 km/h
Sun, Oct 417…280.0 mm47 km/h
Mon, Oct 519…290.0 mm54 km/h

Forecast for the capital only; marks: heat ≥38 °C, frost ≤−20 °C, rain ≥50 mm, gusts ≥75 km/h, thunderstorms. Official warnings are above.

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Food prices in markets14

ItemPriceUSDYear
Maize / KG950 MWK0.55—
Beans / KG4,633.33 MWK2.67-32%
Sugar / KG4,878.26 MWK2.81+30%
Oil (vegetable) / L7,840.28 MWK4.52+6%
Cowpeas / KG2,267.5 MWK1.31-24%
Sweet potatoes / KG556 MWK0.32-33%
Exotic vegetables / KG1,120 MWK0.65—
Tomatoes / KG1,200 MWK0.69—
Rice / KG3,400 MWK1.96-9%
Local vegetables / KG1,000 MWK0.58—
Charcoal / KG1,000 MWK0.58+51%
Laundry soap / 140 G1,000 MWK0.580%
Bathing soap / 300 G3,000 MWK1.73—
Firewood / 350 G200 MWK0.12-27%

Median retail price across markets in the latest month reported (2026-08); change against the same month a year before.

WFP · HDX (CC BY-IGO)

Disasters since 20004

012000: 020002001: 02002: 02003: 02004: 02005: 020052006: 02007: 02008: 02009: 02010: 020102011: 02012: 02013: 02014: 02015: 020152016: 02017: 02018: 02019: Floods 12020: 020202021: 02022: Tropical cyclones 12023: Floods 12024: Tropical cyclones 12025: 020252026: 02026

Tropical cyclonesFloods

  • Tropical Cyclone FILIPO-24 · Mar 3, 2024 · Post-tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 158 km/h)
  • Flood in Malawi · Mar 13, 2023 · Magnitude 0
  • Tropical Cyclone ANA-22 · Jan 23, 2022 · Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 83 km/h)
  • Flood in Malawi · Mar 4, 2019 · Magnitude 0.00

GDACS (orange and red alerts since 2000)