Instead, I found that under his rule, GDP per capita growth dwindled significantly in similar fashion as GDP. In Mutharika’s rule, the worst performance was from 2018-202when GDP per capita growth tumbled from about 7 7% in 2017 to minus 2% in 2020. Table 1 below shows Malawi’s GDP per capita in US$ at current prices for the period 2014-2024. Malawi’s population is almost the same as Zambia’s but Zambia’s annual GDP per capita is almost twofold. African economies are poor because their economies manifested in GDP and GDP per capita in dollar values are too small.