Madagascar
65 figures for Madagascar, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Madagascar compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $599 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $1,952 (2025)
- Economic growth +3.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.0% (2025)
- Inflation +7.6% (2024)
- Exports 24.0% (2024)
- Income per person $1,656 (2023)
- Household wealth 28.6 (2018)
- Poorer households 86.6% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.36 (2018)
- Women in paid work 81.4% (2009)
People
- Population 31.2 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.40% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.91 (2024)
- Typical age 18.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 32.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.487 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.934 (2023)
- People per household 4.5 (2018)
- People over 65 2.9% (2018)
- Children under 15 43.2% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.2 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.7 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 63.6 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 62.4 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 445 (2023)
- Health spending per person $17 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 46% (2024)
- Overweight adults 17.0% (2022)
- Stunted children 41.6% (2018)
- Overweight children 1.4% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 5.0% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 2.8% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 4.6 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.1 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 34.1% (2021)
- Education spending 3.1% (2022)
- Teens in school 43.2% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.142 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 4.53 million (2024)
- Forest cover 21.3% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 11.6 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 83.6% (2021)
- Average temperature 21.9 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 304 (2023)
- Access to electricity 42.5% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 42.4% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 20.6% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.4% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 18.7% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 64.7 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.1 (2022)
- Homes with internet 13.3% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 49.6% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 39.5% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,426 (2023)
- Farmland 70.3% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 69.2% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.36 (2025)
- Human rights 0.65 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.04 (2025)
- Women in parliament 14.1% (2025)
- Military spending 0.7% (2024)
- Clean government 54.6 (2022)