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Malawi: Ficha informativa

País República do Malawi
Área 118 484 km2
Capital Lilongwe
Principais cidades Blantyre, Mzuzu, Zomba, Karonga, Mangochi, Kasungu
Limites Moçambique, Zâmbia, Tanzânia
População 12 608 000, 2004 (UNDP 2006)
Taxa cresc pop 2.2%, 2004-15 (UNDP 2006)
Urbanização 16.7%, 2004 (UNDP 2006)
Esperança de Vida Mulher 39.6 anos, homem 40.0 anos; 2004 (UNDP 2006)
Mortalidade infantil 110/1000, 2004 (UNDP 2006)
Prevalência de HIV/SIDA 14.1%, 2006 (UNAIDS 2006)
Taxa de escolarização Mulher 54.0%, homem 74.9%; 2004 (UNDP 2006)
Sistema jurídico Direito comum inglês, direito costumeiro (africa in sight undated)
Data da independência 6 de Julho de 1964 (Commonwealth Secretariat undated)
PIB US$2.158 biliões, 2006 est (IMF 2006)
PIB per capita US$164.45, 2006 est (IMF 2006)
Taxa cresc PIB 8.4%, 2006 est (IMF 2006)
Principais exportações Tabaco, açúcar, chá, café e algodão (Commonwealth Secretariat undated)
Moeda 1 Kwacha = 100 Tambala (Commonwealth Secretariat undated)
Desemprego +53%, 2004 (Disability Front Line 2004)
Taxa de inflação 10.9%, 2006 est (IMF 2006)
Dívida externa 202.4% of PIB, 2006 (IMF 2007)
Grupos étnicos Chewa, Yaos, Lomwes, Nkhonde, Lambya, Tonga, Tumbuka, Ngoni (Government of Malawi undated)
Línguas Oficial: Inglês, nacionais Nyanja (Chewa), Tumbuka. Outras Yao, Nyakyusa-Ngonde, Sena, Kokola, Lomwe, Ndali, Lambya (Ethnologue.com undated)
Religião Cristã 76.8% (Católica Romana 24.7%, Protestante 22.9%, Independente 16.8%) Muçulmana 14.8%, Tradicional Africana 7.8% (Religious Freedom undated)

Referências

AFRICA IN SIGHT UNDATED "Legal System", [www] Legal System (AI) [opens new window] (September 2005).

COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT UNDATED "Country profile: Malawi", [www] http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/YearbookHomeInternal.asp?NodeID=138698 [opens new window] (September 2005).

DISABILITY FRONT LINE 2004 "Representative surveys on the 'Living Conditions Among Disabled People' in three countries in Southern Africa: Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe", Disability Front Line, October 29, [www] http://www.safod.com/DRC/DFL29.pdf [PDF document, opens new window] (Document not available on-line March 2005).

ETHNOLOGUE.COM UNDATED "Languages of Malawi" [www] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Malawi [opens new window].

GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI UNDATED "History of Malawi", [www] http://www.malawi.gov.mw/information/history.htm [opens new window] (Page not available, March 2005).

IMF 2007 Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, [www] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2007/AFR/ENG/sreo0407.pdf, 100 [PDF document, opens new window].

IMF 2006 World Economic Outlook Database, [www] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2006/02/data/index.aspx [opens new window].

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UNDATED "Nation profile: Malawi", [www] http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/nationprofiles/Malawi/rbodies.html [opens new window] (September 2005).

UNAIDS 2006 "Malawi", [www] http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/malawi.asp [opens in window] (September 2005).

UNDP 2006 "Malawi", IN Human Development Reports, [www] http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_MWI.html [opens new window].