Quick Statistics

Road transport is the main mode of transport in Malawi.

• The Road Network is composed of 15.451km of which about 26% are paved. 74% of the road network is earth/gravel surface.
• Road re-classification studies done in 2006 identified about 9,478km of undesignated road network that serve the rural communities.
• The main, secondary and tertiary roads effectively make up the country’s core network, with remaining roads acting as feeder system.
• Road handles more than 70% on internal freight and 99 of passenger traffic
• Road transport handles more than 90% of international freight and passenger traffic
• It is due to this large volume of internal freight and passenger traffic that Malawi Government has given high priority to maintenance and construction of roads in Malawi.
• It is actually estimated that 55% of the costs of production are taken up by transportation costs in Malawi compared to 17% of other developing countries.
• The present road condition is 21% good, 7% fair and 42% poor.
• The targeted road network condition by year 2011 is 71% good, 18% fair and 1% poor.