ports--partners: US, South Africa, Germany, Japan

Imports: $475 million (f.o.b., 1995)

Imports--commodities: food, petroleum products, semimanufactures,
consumer goods, transportation equipment

Imports--partners: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Japan, US, UK, Germany

Debt--external: $2.3 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $416.5 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Malawian kwacha (MK) = 100 tambala

Exchange rates: Malawian kwachas (MK) per US$1--43.5426 (January
1999), 31.0727 (1998), 16.4442 (1997), 15.3085 (1996), 15.2837
(1995), 8.7364 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 43,000 (1985 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: fair system of open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and radiotelephone communications stations
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean
and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 17, shortwave 0

Radios: 1.011 million (1995)

Television broadcast stations: 0 (1997 est.)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways:
total: 789 km
narrow gauge: 789 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 28,400 km
paved: 5,254 km
unpaved: 23,146 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km

Ports and harbors: Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota

Airports: 45 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 40
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 16
under 914 m: 23 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army (includes Air Wing and Naval Detachment),
Police (includes paramilitary Mobile Force Unit)

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 2,314,509 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,186,341 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $17 million (FY96/97)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 0.8% (FY96/97)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: dispute with Tanzania over the boundary
in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi)

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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, peninsula and northern one-third of
the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the South China Sea,
south of Vietnam

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