The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Malawi requires an estimated $3.3 billion (about K5.8 trillion) in additional financing annually to close its development financing gap by 2030. The K5.8 trillion financing gap accounts for over half or about 58 percent of the 2026/27 National Budget pegged at about K10.9 trillion. While the Malawi economy is smaller than most regional peers, its financing gap ratio is lower than Namibia at 84.1 percent, Madagascar at 40.6 percent, Mozambique at 38.8 percent and Lesotho at 37 percent. Reads the outlook in part: “Southern Africa’s most binding development financing challenge is not simply a shortage of resources, but the limited capacity to mobilise, intermediate and deploy available capital efficiently at scale.” In an earlier statement, IMF cautioned that financing debt and imports will remain a challenge for Malawi despite improvements in filling the gap unless the country’s unsustainable debt is addressed.