A home for Malawi research data
Discover, access, and contribute to a growing independent catalog of research datasets across Malawi's domains.
Why Kafukufuku Data Hub?
A live, searchable catalog built around Malawi's research data landscape.
Discoverable
Search and filter datasets across Malawi's research domains with consistent metadata.
Aggregated
Collections assembled from public and shared research data sources as the catalog grows.
Open
Licensing and download flows are explicit, trackable, and built around reuse.
Community-driven
A shared catalog for researchers, policymakers, implementers, and civic technologists.
API-first
Every dataset card, detail page, and search result is backed by the REST API.
Operational
The backend is seeded and test-backed, so the UI now reflects live repository state.
All Research Domains
Browse the live catalog by subject area.
Featured Collections
Stable landing pages for the strongest starting points in the Malawi catalog.
Health
Malawi health indicators, service coverage, and disease surveillance in one landing page.
Open collectionPopulation
Demographic, census, migration, and household composition records for Malawi population analysis.
Open collectionEconomics
Economic indicators for prices, poverty, employment, growth, and market conditions.
Open collectionEducation
School access, enrolment, literacy, infrastructure, and exam trends across Malawi.
Open collectionClimate
Rainfall, drought, and climate variability datasets assembled for resilience and risk analysis.
Open collectionGeneral
Cross-domain Malawi datasets that do not fit neatly into a single thematic bucket.
Open collectionPopular Datasets
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Birth rate, crude (per 1,000...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Population, total' (SP.POP.TOTL)....
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Death rate, crude (per 1,000...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Life expectancy at birth, total...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Individuals using the Internet (%...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Access to electricity (% of...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Food, beverages and tobacco (% of...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Fertilizer consumption (kilograms...
Annual World Bank time series for Malawi covering the indicator 'Capture fisheries production...
Current Data Sources
Using Malawi Data
Short guide pages for the main user groups Kafukufuku is built to support.
Using Malawi data as a student
A practical starting point for assignments, dissertations, and learning how to cite and interpret datasets responsibly.
Using Malawi data for research
A research-oriented workflow for source checking, comparing datasets, and documenting reuse assumptions clearly.
Using Malawi data for NGO programs
A field-focused guide for quickly finding district-relevant datasets and checking whether they are safe to reuse in operational work.
Using Malawi data for government analysis
A policy workflow for reviewing provenance, institutional ownership, and update recency before using data in briefs or planning notes.