International Rankings of Madagascar 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Madagascar, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Madagascar, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	60	0.10	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	150	32000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	103	20.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	83	5.800 million	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	171	25761	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	90	56.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	69	16.280 million	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	150	2.090 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget - revenues	155	1.510 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	56	2.70 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	129	732.252 million US Dollars	2021
Debt - external	144	3.085 billion US Dollars	2019
Exchange rates	10	3829.98	N/A
Exports	143	3.341 billion US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	133	13.964 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	110	31.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	112	11.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	79	67.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	58	33.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	118	15.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	13	8.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	31	24.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	121	19.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	120	56.40 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	32	43 %	2012
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	36	34.70 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2010
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	29	2.20 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	147	4.768 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	196	21.56 %	2020
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	54	5.81 %	2021
Labor force	43	14.813 million US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	3	71 %	2012
Public debt	141	36.00 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	120	42.322 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	99	4.40 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	167	1500 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	73	4	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	128	2.335 billion US Dollars	2021
Taxes and other revenues	182	9.52 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	190	2.59 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	146	4.40 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	141	5.20 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	144	4.80 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from coal and metallurgical coke	90	1.044 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	135	3.175 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	141	4.218 million	2019
Coal - consumption	100	107000 metric tons	2020
Coal - imports	82	115000 metric tons	2020
Electricity - consumption	149	1.720 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	146	587000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	153	131.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	73	11	2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population	70	35	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	49	73	2021
Electricity access - population without electricity	8	20.000 million	2020
Electricity generation sources - biomass and waste	48	1.00 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	90	59.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	50	38.20 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	58	1.10 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	185	2.307 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	137	21100 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	127	18880 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	131	4 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	93	10 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	100	16 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	20	71	2018
Land use - arable land	118	6	2018
Land use - forest	119	22	2018
Land use - permanent crops	75	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	12	64	2018
Revenue from forest resources	17	4 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	32	337.000 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	33	13.000 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	79	160.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	77	400.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	11	4.26	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	140	41	2023
Geography
Area - land	48	581540 sq km	N/A
Area - total	51	587041 sq km	N/A
Area - water	65	5501 sq km	N/A
Coastline	31	4828 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	63	2876 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	57	615 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	43	10860 sq km	2012
Land use - agricultural land	20	71	2018
Land use - arable land	118	6	2018
Land use - forest	119	22	2018
Land use - permanent crops	75	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	12	64	2018
Population Density	164	49.54 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	43	1 % of GDP	2023
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	122	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	141	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	33	28.10 births/1,000 population	2023
Child marriage - men married by age 18	4	11	2021
Child marriage - women married by age 15	8	13	N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18	7	39	N/A
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	8	23 %	2021
Contraceptive prevalence rate	73	49.70 %	2020
Current health expenditure	77	4 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	61	60 %	2023
Death rate	69	5.90 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	137	5.80 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	28	17.40 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	36	74.50 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	35	68.80 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	58	85 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	4	62 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	2	44 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	7	15 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	55	3 % of GDP	2020
Gross reproduction rate	28	1.75 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	31	34.80 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	33	41.60 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	32	38.30 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	115	70 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	111	67 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	112	69 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	80	76 %	2021
Literacy - male	71	79 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	74	77 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	24	392.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	144	21 years	N/A
Median age - male	139	21 years	N/A
Median age - total	133	21 years	2023
Mother's mean age at first birth	78	20	2021
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	134	5.30 %	2016
Physicians density	142	0.20 physicians/1,000 population	2018
Population	53	28.812 million	2023
Population growth rate	31	2.22 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	93	49 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	13	78 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	9	67 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	2	51 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	14	1.02 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	22	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	27	0.86 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	18	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	34	3.55 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	11	4.26	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	140	41	2023
Transportation
Airports	58	91	2024
Merchant marine - total	120	29	2023
National air transport system - annual freight traffic on registered air carriers	82	16.250 million	2018
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	114	541290	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	84	18.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	24	4	2020
Railways - narrow gauge	34	836	2018
Railways - total	68	836 km	2018
Waterways	77	600 km	2011

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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