Food price data used to assess the cost and affordability of basic meals in Malawi between 2017 and 2021

The food price data were collected between January 2017 and December 2021 and contained a total of 19 food items. The data were obtained from the National Statistics Office of Malawi (NSO) and were used in my mini-dissertation with permission from the Commissioner of Statistics. The data were used to assess the cost and affordability of basic meals in Malawi to which world food programmes (WFP's) basic plate approach was employed.