Malawi Monthly Cross-Border Trade Data Collected by FEWS NET Since 2005

Malawi monthly cross-border trade data collected by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) since 2005. The dataset is available in multiple formats and was last updated in March 2026. It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling food supply volatility based on monthly trade flow data
• Analyzing long-term trade trends for Malawi based on data collected since 2005
• Forecasting regional food security based on cross-border commodity movements

Strengths

• Data collection spans over 20 years, starting in 2005
• 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 (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Collection Method

Collected by FEWS NET

Time Range

Since 2005

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 10:12:12.536603; freshness should be verified

Geography

Malawi, cross-border trade