The flag of Malawi

since 2012

The current flag of Malawi was adopted in 2012 and flies at 2:3. 2 earlier flags are on record, listed below with the years each one flew.

Malawi, 2:3. flagcdn.com, public domain.

The colours

What the flag of Malawi is made of

Counted off the file rather than read out of it. Every pixel of a 320-pixel rendering is sorted into a colour, so the share below is the share of the flag a person actually sees, and an emblem’s interior shades do not outrank a band covering a third of the field.

#00000027.6% of the field
#ce112638.5% of the field
#339e3533.9% of the field

These are the colours the plates for Malawi are drawn in. Nothing on this site takes a country’s colours from anywhere but its own flag.

The shape

Its proportion and its dates

Proportion: 2:3height to width
As a ratio: 1.5width divided by height
Adopted: 28 May 2012
Emoji: 🇲🇼derived from the ISO code
File: /flags/mw.svgflagcdn.com, public domain

Before this one

The flags Malawi flew before

Every flag on record with a start and an end date, oldest first. A flag change is a constitutional event and the dates are the point: the years below are the years each design was the flag, not the years anybody designed it.

1964–2010: Flag of MalawiPublic domain
2010–2012: Flag of Malawi (2010–2012)Public domain

Coat of arms

The arms of Malawi

Record generated 2026-08-31 · Q1020 · World Bank data · Africa