Malawi Current Account Balance

Definition: This entry records a country's net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of May 16, 2008

Equivalent Data From the International Monetary Fund

Variable: Current account balance

Note: Balance of payments data are based upon the methodology of the 5th edition of the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payments Manual (1993). Data for the world total reflects errors, omissions, and asymmetries in balance of payments statistics on current account, as well as the exclusion of data for international organizations and a limited number of countries. Calculated as the sum of the balance of individual countries.

Units: U.S. dollars

Scale: Billions

Country-specific Note: Definition: Balance on current transactions excluding exceptional financing Source: Ministry of Finance Latest actual data: 2006 Primary domestic currency: Malawi kwacha Data last updated: 03/2008

Source: International Monetary Fund - 2008 World Economic Outlook