Demographics+Malawi



**Population: ** 13,931,831 (July 2008)

Christian: 75% Islam: 20% Indigenous beliefs**:** 5%
 * Religions **

0-14 years: 45% 15-64 years: 52% Over 65 years: 3%  As you can see, a lot of Malawi’s population is young people. Average life expectancy is 36, 5 year. The average life expectancy is actually five years less than 50 years ago. One of the reasons for this is that the destitution is still growing in Malawi, and the inhabitants has low income, deficient diet, low access to medications, low school access, proliferation of aids and HIV. The government economic restriction has abig influence on the average life of expectancy and child death. Today women give births to about 5-6 kids, but less than half of them survive more than five years. The child death in Malawi is 103/1000. Over a million children are without parents, and about 700 000 of them lost their parents because of AIDS. About 14% of the residents are positive to HIV, and in 2003, 90.000 people died because of AIDS. The population in Malawi is growing rapidly, as you can see on this graph.
 * Age structure: **

 (These numbers are shown in thousands)

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