Malawi

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Malawi is a land-locked country in southeast Africa with a largely rural population of about 17 million people.

School-age Population by Education Level¹
2,760,332		1,594,473
Secondary		Tertiary

Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Secondary Education for the school year ending 2019¹
34%		41%
Female		Male

Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Tertiary Education for the school year ending 2011¹
1%		1%
Female		Male

Percentage of female teachers in ¹
22.9%		25.6%
Secondary (2018)		Tertiary (2011)

1. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre, retrieved in June 2021

Highlights

COL’s current work in Malawi is primarily in the areas of gender, higher education, and open and innovative schooling. Malawi benefits from programmes under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community Centre for Distance Education. Learners from Malawi have also benefited from COL’s open online courses and other resources.

Partners

Partnerships are fundamental to COL’s work. Strategic partnerships allow COL to broaden its reach and engage at global, regional and national levels, while implementation partners support COL’s work in communities and institutions across Commonwealth Member States. Partners include multilateral organisations, regional bodies, national governments, government agencies, foundations, civil society organisations, public and private (not-for-profit) institutions and the private sector. COL partnerships assist in improving and extending teaching and learning services to people in the developing Commonwealth.

COL’s partners in Malawi include:

Ministry of Education
Centre for Research and Development Initiative
Concerned Youth Organisation
Malawi College of Distance Education
University of Malawi

Literacy rate (2010)¹
51.3%		72.1%
Adult (15+) literacy rate Female		Adult (15+) literacy rate Male

Economic Activity (2010)¹
76%		64%
Adult (15+) economic activity Female		Adult (15+) economic activity Male

Political Decision Making (2014)¹
22%
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

Life expectancy (2012)¹
60		58
Female		Male

1. COL gender country profile April 2015

0.1	39
Fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants¹	Mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants¹

0.1	27.2
Fixed-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants¹	Mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants¹

6.3	13.8
Households with a computer (%)¹	Individuals using the internet (%)¹

1. International Telecommunication Union (ITU), retrieved in March 2020

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