🇲🇬 Madagascar
Republic of Madagascar
Every statistic we track for Madagascar — 135 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$2,106
65.6 yrs
4.17
0.19
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.9 | #28/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #16/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 19.4 | #204/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 22.6 | #53/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 32.3 | #47/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 57.6 | #160/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 637 | #112/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 32.4% | #185/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 42.5% | #203/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 7.3% | #39/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 18.7% | #175/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 64.8 | #183/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 10% | #72/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3% | #75/112 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #188/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 304 | #142/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 30.1 | #172/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 42.4% | #76/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 51 | #100/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 72.2% | #3/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.9 | #102/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 2.9 | #114/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 22.5 | #27/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 51% | #15/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 90.4% | #42/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 42.5% | #85/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 19.1 | #17/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 67.4% | #4/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 23.5% | #3/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.8 | #34/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 36 | #139/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 24.2 | #18/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 64.9% | #82/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.2 | #132/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.4 | #143/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 0.9 | #141/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #56/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #120/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #73/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.7 | #132/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #183/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 98% | #1/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 73.9% | #8/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.2% | #119/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 91.1% | #24/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 85.4% | #45/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 43.1% | #34/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 30% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Trade Union Membership | 19% | #28/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 57.3% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.8 | #63/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 48.2% | #138/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 37.5% | #139/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.3 | #117/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 60.6% | #26/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.