Malawi Daily Cross-Border Trade Data Collected by FEWS NET

FEWS NET has collected daily cross-border trade data for Malawi since 2018. The dataset is available in XLSX, JSON, and CSV formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on 2026-03-24.

Use Cases

• Modeling food supply chain volatility based on daily trade flows
• Analyzing cross-border market integration based on trade data
• Forecasting regional food security trends based on trade patterns

Strengths

• Data collection began in 2018, providing a multi-year time series
• Available in three common formats: XLSX, JSON, and CSV
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Collected by FEWS NET

Time Range

Since 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026 03 24 10:12:12.967892; freshness should be verified

Geography

Malawi, cross-border