Table 3.

Simple and composite socioeconomic indicators by district

District	2008 Population	Normalised asset indices	Population weighted by asset indices	Population weighted by Stunting	Proportion of population weighted by asset indices (%)	Proportion of population weighted by stunting (%)
Balaka	316,748	1.194	378,083	361,093	1.94	2.31
Blantyre	999,491	2.616	2,614,947	1,162,408	13.41	7.44
Chikwawa	438,895	1.416	621,280	513,946	3.19	3.29
Chiradzulu	290,946	1.328	386,520	341,862	1.98	2.19
Chitipa	179,072	1.101	197,101	204,858	1.01	1.31
Dedza	623,789	1.021	636,917	799,074	3.27	5.11
Dowa	556,678	1.242	691,347	668,014	3.55	4.27
Karonga	272,789	1.479	403,586	304,978	2.07	1.95
Kasungu	616,085	1.210	745,753	732,525	3.83	4.69
Lilongwe	1,897,167	1.996	3,787,212	2,325,927	19.43	14.88
Machinga	488,996	1.095	535,673	628,849	2.75	4.02
Mangochi	803,602	1.255	1,008,684	963,519	5.17	6.16
Mchinji	456,558	1.199	547,441	594,895	2.81	3.81
Mulanje	525,429	1.447	760,077	634,718	3.90	4.06
Mwanza	94,476	1.240	117,167	109,970	0.60	0.70
Mzimba	853,305	1.731	1,477,107	1,013,726	7.58	6.49
Nkhata Bay	213,779	1.371	293,108	247,129	1.50	1.58
Nkhotakota	301,868	1.413	426,476	365,864	2.19	2.34
Nsanje	238,089	1.235	294,010	269,993	1.51	1.73
Ntcheu	474,464	1.115	529,115	581,693	2.71	3.72
Ntchisi	224,098	1.000	224,098	289,086	1.15	1.85
Phalombe	313,227	1.111	347,884	386,209	1.78	2.47
Rumphi	169,112	1.432	242,232	189,067	1.24	1.21
Salima	340,327	1.518	516,700	385,250	2.65	2.46
Thyolo	587,455	1.329	780,533	721,395	4.00	4.61
Zomba	670,533	1.391	932,631	835,484	4.78	5.34